Gustav Alfred Senn (9 November 1875 in
Basel,
Switzerland
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– 10 July 1945 in
Basel) was a
Swiss
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botanist and historian of botany. He was a student of
Georg Klebs and worked on the movement and morphological changes of
chloroplast
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s. He also studied
Theophrastus.
Selected works
* ''Die Gestalts- und Lageveränderung der Pflanzen-Chromatophoren'', Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908.
* ''Die Entwicklung der biologischen Forschungsmethode in der Antike und ihre grundsätzlitche Förderung durch Theophrast von Eresos'', Aarau: H. R. Sauerländer & Company, 1933. Series "Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften", #8. .
References
* Obituary,
d'Arcy W. Thompson, ''Nature'' 156 (8 September 1945), p. 289, .
* Obituary, F. E. Weiss, ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London'' 158, #1, pp. 70–71, .
* "Notes and Correspondence", George Sarton and Aubrey Diller, ''Isis'' 36, #2 (Jan. 1946), pp. 130–134, . (obituary)
* "Gustav Senn (1875–1945): The pioneer of chloroplast movement research", Hironao Kataoka, ''Journal of Integrative Plant Biology'' 57 #1 (Jan. 2015), pp. 4–13, .
1875 births
1945 deaths
20th-century Swiss botanists
Scientists from Basel-Stadt
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