About Gustav Senn
Lived 1875 – 1945 (aged 69). Gustav Senn was a Swiss botanist.
Gustav Alfred Senn (9 November 1875 in Basel, Switzerland – 10 July 1945 in Basel) was a Swiss botanist and historian of botany. He was a student of Georg Klebs and worked on the movement and morphological changes of chloroplasts. He also studied Theophrastus.
Selected works
Die Gestalts- und Lageveränderung der Pflanzen-Chromatophoren, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908. Die Entwicklung der biologischen Forschungsmethode in der Antike und ihre grundsätzlitche Förderung durch Theophrast von Eresos, Aarau: H. R. Sauerländer & Company, 1933. Series "Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften", #8. .
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Who was Gustav Senn?
Swiss botanist (1875-1945)
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Gustav Senn was born on 9 November 1875 in Basel.
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Gustav Senn died on 10 July 1945 in Basel.
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Gustav Senn was a botanist.
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Gustav Senn was Swiss.
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