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Hermann Fol

Swiss physicist and zoologist

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study of fertilization process

  • biology; microscope
    In biology: The fertilization process

    …the Swiss physician and zoologist Hermann Fol observed the penetration of a spermatozoon into an ovum. Prior to that discovery, during the period from 1823 to 1830, the existence of the sexual process in flowering plants had been demonstrated by the Italian astronomer and optician Giovanni Battista Amici and confirmed…

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