Koelreuter, Joseph Gottlieb

Janet Browne, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002495

1733–1806 German botanist and plant experimentalist who carried out pioneering investigations into plant fertilization.

Keywords: botany; fertilization; hybrids; species

 Further Reading
    book Koelreuter JG (1761–66) Vorlaufige Nachricht von einigen das Geschlecht der Pflanzen betreffenden und Beobachtungen, 3 parts. Leipzig: Gleditsch.
    book Morton AG (1981) History of Botanical Science. London: Academic Press.
    book Olby R (1985) Origins of Mendelism. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

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Browne, Janet(Apr 2001) Koelreuter, Joseph Gottlieb. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002495]