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Wilhelm Roux
Wilhelm Roux (9 June 1850 in Jena – 15 September 1924 in Halle) was a Germanzoologist, anatomist and pioneer of experimental embryology.
For ten years he worked in Breslau (now Wroclaw), becoming director of his own Institute of Embryology in 1879.
Wilhelm roux biography of william
He was professor at Innsbruck, Austria from 1889–95, then accepted a professorial chair at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Halle, a post he retained until 1921.
Embryology
[change | change source]Roux's research was based upon the notion of Entwicklungsmechanik or developmental mechanics.
His methodology was to interfere with developing embryos and observe the outcome. Roux's investigations were performed mainly on frogs' eggs to research the earliest structures in amphibian development. His goal was to show Darwinian processes at work on the cellular level.
In 1888, Roux published the results of a series of defect experiments in which he took 2 and 4 cell frog embryos and killed half of the ce