Hans Ferdinand Linskens (22 May 1921 – 13 August 2007) was a German

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and geneticist. Linskens was born in Lahr, Germany. From 1957 to 1986, he was

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of botany at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Linskens was the

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of ''

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'' (1977 to 1987) and '' Sexual Plant Reproduction''. He was also an influential editor of handbooks. Linskens was an elected member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina,

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in 1978, and the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Linskens, Hans Ferdinand 1921 births 2007 deaths Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Lahr Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen 20th-century German botanists German geneticists German expatriates in the Netherlands