Hans Ferdinand Linskens

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Hans Ferdinand Linskens (born May 22, 1921 in Lahr ; † August 13, 2007 ), also Hansferdinand Linskens , was a German botanist and geneticist .

Life

Linskens studied biology, chemistry and geography at the University of Cologne shortly before and after the Second World War . From 1947 to 1949 he worked in the crop protection department at Bayer AG in Leverkusen. In Cologne, in Joseph Straub's working group, he also found his life theme that occupied him for decades: the reproductive biology of plants. In 1949 he received his doctorate in Cologne. From 1949 to 1957 he was an assistant at the University of Cologne.

From 1957 to 1986 Hans Ferdinand Linskens was Professor of Botany at Radboud University Nijmegen . Linskens was the editor of Theoretical and Applied Genetics (1977-1987) and Sexual Plant Reproduction . In addition to magazine editor, he was also editor of manuals.

Linskens was an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , Linnean Society of London , Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b H. C. Becker: In Memoriam: Hansferdinand Linskens (1921-2007) . In: Theoretical and Applied Genetics . 116, No. 1, 2007, pp. 1-2. doi : 10.1007 / s00122-007-0658-2 . PMID 17932645 .
  2. ^ A b David Mulcahy, Mauro Cresti: Hans Ferdinand Linskens . In: Sexual Plant Reproduction . 20, No. 4, 2007, p. 167. doi : 10.1007 / s00497-007-0055-7 .
  3. A. Trebst: Modern methods of plant analysis . In: The natural sciences . 53, No. 15, 1966, p. 391. doi : 10.1007 / BF01185170 .