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Authorised form of nameWeismann; August Friedrich Leopold (1834 - 1914)
Dates1834 - 1914
Place of birthFrankfurt am Main, Germany
Date of birth17 January 1834
Place of deathFreiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Date of death05/11/1914
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election30/06/1910
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Darwin Medal 1908
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series B 1915-1917 vol 89 pp xxvii-xxxiv signed by E B P
References:
Sir Gavin de Beer, ed., 'The Darwin Letters at Shrewsbury School' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 68-85
CodeNA7702
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1910/20Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/38/742Copy letter from Archibald Geikie, to Professor August Weismann, [Foreign Member of the Royal Society]29 October 1908
NLB/42/649Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to "Nature"July 1910
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