José Fernández Nonídez

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José Fernández Nonidez y López-Calvo (born February 22, 1892 in Madrid , † September 27, 1947 in Augusta , Georgia , United States ) was a Spanish zoologist and geneticist and made a decisive contribution to the establishment of the Mendelian rules of genetics in Spain.

Live and act

Nonidez studied zoology at the University of Madrid with Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia , who suggested Nonidez for a chair at the University of Murcia because of his excellent performance . From 1917 teaching as a full professor at the University of Murcia , he received an offer to study at Columbia University , which was linked to a scholarship . In New York , with the two contemporary experts in the field of cytogenetics , Thomas Hunt Morgan and Edmund B. Wilson , Nonidez deepened his research.

Back in Spain in 1920, Nonidez gave lectures at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, which served as a template for his book The Mendelian Heritage of Genetics (La herencia mendeliana: introducción al estudio de la genética), published in 1922. Along with the published by him in the following year, another book Inherited Varitionen domesticated animals and cultivated plants (variación y herencia de los animales domésticos y las plantas cultivadas) wore these two books crucial to spread the teaching of genetics in Spain, and even served the Nobel Prize winner Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the basis of his histology .

Despite his reputation in Spain, he turned his back on his country in 1921 when the private Cornell University in New York had offered him a chair in anatomy . Nonidez spent the rest of his life in the United States, devoting himself to research in the fields of embryology and microscopic anatomy in addition to his lectures . His findings were reflected in the 1941 Handbook of Histology , which was reprinted several times in the following years.

Works

  • The chromosomes in the gasket to Ampliación de Estudios "Lusitanica Blaps , Madrid, spermatogenesis, 1914
  • Study on sex cells. I, goniales chromosomes and mitosis of maturation in "Lusitanica Blaps" and "B. Walti , Memoirs of the Spanish society of Natural history, 10, pp. 145-192, 1915
  • Current ideas about sex , Spanish journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, 2, pp. 63-77, 1917
  • Pseudoscorpions from Spain , Madrid to Ampliación de Estudios, 1917
  • Accessory chromosome in spermatogenesis of the "Acilus vulcatus" , Bulletin of the Spanish society of Natural history, 20, pp. 253-256, 1920
  • Mendelina heritage. Introduction to the study of genetics , Calpe, 1923
  • Histoloy and Embriology , London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1941.

bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b J.MLP: Biography of José Fernández Nonídez. The Biography, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  2. ^ A b Isolde Schmidt: Nonidez y Lopez-Calvo, Jose Fernandez Lexicon of important natural scientists, Volume 3, Elsevier , p. 88, 2007 Munich, ISBN 978-3-8274-1883-8
personal data
SURNAME Nonídez, José Fernández
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nonidez y López-Calvo, José Fernández
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish zoologist and histologist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1947
Place of death Augusta , Georgia , United States