science · 10 May 1891 · 133 years ago
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Died 10 May 1891 at age 74 (born 27 Mar 1817).
Swiss botanist famous for his work on plant cells. At the age of 25 he wrote a paper on pollen formation of seed and flowering plants and described cell division with great accuracy. He noted what he called transitory cytoblasts, which later were identified as chromosomes.
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