Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper Died 9 Sep 1901 at age 45 (born - TopicsExpress



          

Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper Died 9 Sep 1901 at age 45 (born 12 May 1856). German botanist whose Pflanzentogeographie (1898) was one of the first and finest mapping of the floral regions of the continents. He coined (1885) the term chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that conduct photosynthesis), and distinguished them from chromatophores (pigment-containing cells found in many marine animals). In 1880, he proved that starch is the source of stored energy for plants. His explorations included Florida, the West Indies, South America, and Indonesia. On the Valdivia expedition (1898) he studied the oceanic plankton of numerous oceanic islands and coastal Africa. His father, Wilhelm Philipp Schimper was an expert on mosses and whose cousin Karl Friedrich Schimper studied plant morphology
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 04:03:28 +0000

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