For the American Union Army officer, see Theodore Schwan.
Theodor Schwann
Schwann in 1857
Born
(1810-12-07)7 December 1810
Neuss, First French Empire
Died
11 January 1882(1882-01-11) (aged 71)
Cologne, German Empire
Education
Humboldt University of Berlin (1834)
University of Bonn
University of Würzburg
Known for
Cell theory
Schwann cells
Pepsin
Awards
Copley Medal (1845)
Scientific career
Fields
Biology
Theodor Schwann (German pronunciation:[ˈteːodoːɐ̯ˈʃvan];[1][2] 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist.[3] His most significant contribution to biology is considered to be the extension of cell theory to animals. Other contributions include the discovery of Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system, the discovery and study of pepsin, the discovery of the organic nature of yeast,[4] and the invention of the term "metabolism".[5]
^Dudenredaktion; Kleiner, Stefan; Knöbl, Ralf (2015) [First published 1962]. Das Aussprachewörterbuch [The Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German) (7th ed.). Berlin: Dudenverlag. pp. 771, 834. ISBN 978-3-411-04067-4.
^Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 914, 987. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6. Archived from the original on 22 July 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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^"Theodor Schwann German physiologist". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 31 October 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^Price, Catherine (2018). "Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion". Distillations. 4 (2): 27–35. Archived from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
TheodorSchwann (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʃvan]; 7 December 1810 – 11 January 1882) was a German physician and physiologist. His most significant...
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1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with TheodorSchwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work...
Pepsin was one of the first enzymes to be discovered, by TheodorSchwann in 1836. Schwann coined its name from the Greek word πέψις pepsis, meaning "digestion"...
began his research in the topic by repeating and confirming works of TheodorSchwann, who demonstrated a decade earlier that yeast were alive. According...
concluded by plant scientist Matthias Schleiden and animal scientist TheodorSchwann in 1838, who viewed live cells in plant and animal tissue, respectively...
structures as researchers were doubtful whether yeasts were algae or fungi. TheodorSchwann recognized them as fungi in 1837. In 1857, French microbiologist Louis...
Peter Thyraeus, (1546–1601), Jesuit, professor of theology in Würzburg TheodorSchwann (1810–1882), physiologist Franz Maria Feldhaus (1874–1957), technical...
materials. 1836 – TheodorSchwann discovered pepsin in extracts from the stomach lining; first isolation of an animal enzyme. 1837 – TheodorSchwann showed that...
symbolized by Capricorn ♑︎. In 1837, Charles Cagniard de la Tour, TheodorSchwann and Friedrich Traugott Kützing independently published papers concluding...
accumulate at a rapid rate with the cell theory of Matthias Schleiden and TheodorSchwann in 1838, that organisms are made up of cells. Claude Bernard (1813–1878)...
engineer, inventor of the Hydraulic accumulator (d. 1900) December 7 – TheodorSchwann, German physiologist (d. 1882) December 11 – Alfred de Musset, French...
ζῷον (zôion), meaning "animal". In 1848, with better microscopes and TheodorSchwann and Matthias Schleiden's cell theory, the zoologist C. T. von Siebold...
with the 1838 appearance of the Cell theory of Matthias Schleiden and TheodorSchwann. It radically stated that organisms are made up of units called cells...
January 10 – Henri Jules Bataille, French general (b. 1816) January 11 – TheodorSchwann, German physiologist (b. 1810) January 13 – Juraj Dobrila, Croatian...
role in equilibration to complete the Bell–Magendie law. In 1838, TheodorSchwann began studying white and grey matter in the brain, and discovered the...
Studnicka, F. K. (1934). "Die Grundlagen der Zellentheorie von TheodorSchwann". Anat. Anz. 78: 246–257. Zeldovich VB, Clausen CH, Bradford E, Fletcher...
Auguste Forel and others. TheodorSchwann proposed in 1839 that the tissues of all organisms are composed of cells. Schwann was expanding on the proposal...
generation." In 1837, Charles Cagniard de la Tour, a physicist, and TheodorSchwann, one of the founders of cell theory, published their independent discovery...
The tumor originates when Schwann cells that form the insulating myelin sheath on the nerve malfunction. Normally, Schwann cells function beneficially...
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