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1 Jacques (ʒɑːk). 1859–1924, US physiologist, born in Germany, noted esp for his pioneering work on artificial parthenogenesis

Loeb, Jacques

From Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
abstract (1859-1924) German -born physiologist best known for his work on artificial parthenogenesis in animals. keywords mechanistic life processes animal tropism parthenogenesis Jacques Loeb was born in Mayen, Germany to a prosperous Jewish importer, and grew up in a well-educated home reading the classics of eighteenth-century European philosophical thought. When he first entered university in 1880 in Berlin, it was with the intention of studying the philosophy of the will, but he was so disillusioned by his experience that he abandoned these plans and moved to the University of Strasbourg to study science. He obtained an MD in 1884 and in 1886 moved to the University of Wurzburg as an assistant to the physiologist Adolf Fick. Toward the end of his tenure there he spent a winter at the marine biological laboratories in Naples. In 1890, Loeb married an American student named Anne Leonard and, disturbed by the German political scene at the time, emigrated to the USA the following…
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Full text Article ABIOGENESIS

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German-born American physiologist and biologist Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into living matter, and for this reason we cannot form a definite plan for the solution of this problem of transformation. But we…
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Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their…
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Full text Article Loeb

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Full text Article LOEB'S TROPISTIC THEORY

From Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
The German-born zoologist/physiologist Jacques Loeb (1859-1924) formulated a theory of the tropism as applied to animal behavior. The term tropism refers to any unlearned movement or orientation of an organic unit as a whole toward a source of stimulation [cf., phototro-pism , which means “turning…
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Full text Article BIOLOGIST

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American zoologist Our tasks as biologists, and as citizens of a civilized country, is a practical engineering job. We need to help arrange so that the existing trend toward a workable world organization will be guided along practical lines which accord with sound biological theory. And we must…
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Full text Article Loeb, Jacques

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(lōb), 1859–1924, American physiologist, b. Germany, M.D. Univ. of Strasbourg, 1884. He came to the United States in 1891 and taught at Bryn Mawr, the Univ. of Chicago, and the Univ. of California. From 1910 he was a member of the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller Univ.). Best known for his…
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From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1859-1924 US biologist Born in Mayen, Germany, he was educated in philosophy at Berlin University, and in medicine at Strassburg University, and in 1886 was appointed to an assistantship at Würzburg University. He began to publish on animal behaviour in 1888, showing that certain caterpillars move…
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Full text Article Physiology

From The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Science, Medicine, and Technology
Physiology is the experimental study of the function of biological processes within living organisms. Until the 1870s, physiology in the United States was primarily a popular discourse related to personal hygiene and health reform. The first American Physiological Society was founded in 1837 by the…
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