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Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Wilhelm Roux (9 June – 15 September ) was a German zoologist and pioneer of experimental embryology.
Early life
Roux was born and educated in Jena, German Confederation where he attended university and studied under Ernst Haeckel.
He also attended university in Berlin and Strasbourg and studied under Gustav Albert Schwalbe, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and Rudolf Virchow. Although he was trained as a clinical doctor, he spent his career in experimental biology.
His doctoral thesis on the embryological development of blood vessels was a seminal early study in biophysical modelling, a milestone in the study of the cardiovascular system.
Career and research
For ten years Roux worked in Breslau (now Wrocław), becoming director of his own Institute of Embryology in He was professor at Innsbruck, Austria from to , then accepted a professorial chair at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Halle, a post he retained until
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