Andreas Sievers

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Andreas Sievers (born June 21, 1931 in Lippstadt ; † December 20, 2009 ) was a German botanist .

Life

Sievers studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and received her doctorate there in 1958 with an investigation into the representability of the ectodesms and their influence by physical factors . In 1967 he completed his habilitation with the text "The fine structure of the rhizoids of Chara foetida ".

1972 Andreas Sievers was to succeed Walter Schumacher to the Chair of Cytology and management of the Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn appointed . Since his retirement in 1996 Sievers continued to teach at the Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden.

As director of the Botanical Institute of the University of Bonn, Andreas Sievers has made internationally recognized contributions to the understanding of the gravity of plants ( gravitropism ). In particular, botanical experiments under weightlessness have decisively led to new findings.

Andreas Sievers had been a member of the Catholic student associations KDSt.V. since 1952 . Sauerlandia Münster and the KDSt.V. Novesia Bonn in the Cartell Association (CV) . He was also a member of the University Club Bonn . In 1993 he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists "Leopoldina" .

Fonts

  • Investigations into the representability of the ectodesms and their influence by physical factors. Fischer, Jena 1959
  • The fine structure of the rhizoids of Chara foetida. A contribution to the function of the Golgi apparatus and the statoliths in the plant cell. Univ. Bonn 1972
  • Sensory perception in plants: Graviperception. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-531-08335-X
  • Plant biology in space. Springer 1987, in Planta, Vol. 203

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  1. ↑ Leopoldina Aktuell 01/2010 (PDF; 3.5 MB), Halle (Saale) February 12, 2010, page 19.
  2. ↑ "Space as a Laboratory" , Ruhr University Bochum

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personal data
SURNAME Sievers, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2009