Ivan Wallin

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Ivan Emanuel Wallin (born January 22, 1883 in Page County , Iowa , † March 6, 1969 ) was an American biologist who made the first experimental work on the endosymbiotic theory , for which he was nicknamed "Mitochondria Man". He claimed that the cell organelles called mitochondria are derived from once independent bacteria , as supported by his comparative studies and studies on isolated mitochondria.

Career

Wallin attended Augustana College from 1900 and Princeton University from 1903 to 1904 . In 1905 he graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree. He then taught biology in Upsala and from 1907 Zoology at the University of Nebraska, where he in 1908 a Master of Arts acquired (with a record of the genus allocreadium Class flukes .) He then worked as a department head at a high school in Oshkosh . From 1910 to 1913 he taught anatomy at the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York. He then worked at the University of Louisville and the Medical College at Cornell. In 1915 he received his doctorate from New York University to the Doctor of Science (with a dissertation on Ammocoetes ). From 1915 to 1918 he taught as an assistant professor and associate professor at Marquette University . From 1918 he was professor and head of the anatomy department at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ivan Emanuel Wallin (born January 22, 1883, † March 6, 1969) . Ancestry.com. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  2. TS Eliot: Ivan Emanuel Wallin. 1883-1969 . In: The Anatomical Record . 171, No. 1, 1971, pp. 137-9. doi : 10.1002 / ar.1091710108 . PMID 4937743 .
  3. Ivan Emanuel Wallin (1883-1969) . In: DNA from the Beginning . DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  4. ^ Wallin, Ivan E. In: George E. Bowman, Nellie C. Ryan: Who's who in Education: A Biographical Directory of the Teaching Profession. 1927, p. 169.