Christoph Gradmann, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002547
1850–1924 German anatomist who did fundamental work in experimental embryology, for which he coined the concept of developmental mechanics (Entwickelungsmechanik).
Keywords: anatomy; experimental embryology; Darwinism; developmental biology; developmental mechanics
| Further Reading | |
| book Roux W (1895) Gesammelte Abhandlungen über Entwickelungsmechanik der Organismen, 2 vols. Leipzig: Engelmann. | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Mocek R (1998) Die werdende Form. Eine Geschichte der kausalen Morphologie. Marburg: Basilisken-Presse. | |
| Sander K (1991) Wilhelm Roux and his programme for developmental biology. Roux's Archives of Developmental Biology 200: 1–6, 61–63, 117–119, 177–179, 237–239, 293–299. | |
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