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DR. THEODOR BOVERI, whose death on October 15 was announced in NATURE of November n, was born on October 12, 1862, and was the successor of Carl Semper in the chair of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of Wiirzburg. He received his university education in Munich, where he had the good fortune to be one of Richard Hertwig's first pupils. There he studied natural science and medicine, graduating in both and becoming privat-docent in 1887. In 1893 he was called to Wiirzburg, where, in spite of offers of other appointments, he remained for twenty-two years. In 1913 he declined the post of director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Research Institute in Berlin. Extensions of his overcrowded research laboratories were granted, and he was made “Geheim Rat.” In 1905–06 he was rector of the University. He held the membership of many scientific academies. But probably honours and titles had little meaning for Boveri, for, like Semper, he was a very modest man.
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Prof. Theodor Boveri . Nature 96, 372–373 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096372b0
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