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August Weismann

August Weismann

German evolutionary biologist
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann FRS, HonFRSE, LLD was a German evolutionary biologist. Fellow German Ernst Mayr ranked him as the second most notable evolutionary theorist of the 19th century, after Charles Darwin. Wikipedia
Born: January 17, 1834, Frankfurt, Germany
Died: November 5, 1914 (age 80 years), Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Known for: Germ plasm theory
Award: Darwin–Wallace Medal (Silver, 1908)
Grandchild: Ursel Weismann