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Authorised form of nameSchwendener; Simon (1829 - 1919)
Dates1829 - 1919
NationalitySwiss
Place of birthBuchs, St Gallen, Switzerland
Date of birth10 February 1829
Place of deathBerlin, Germany
Date of death27/05/1919
Research fieldPlant anatomy
Botany
ActivityEducation:
Geneva; Zurich
Career:
Professor of Botany, Basle (1867); Professor of Botany, Tubingen (1877); Professor of Botany, Berlin (1879); worked on lichens
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election26/06/1913
RelationshipsSon of a farmer; unmarried
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1921 vol 92 pp viii-x signed by S H V
CodeNA1480
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1913/19Schwendener, Simon: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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