3 Quotes & Sayings By Theodor Schwann

Theodor Schwann was born in 1811 in Halle, Germany. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1835 at the University of Jena, where he taught from 1838 to 1841. In 1842, he became a professor at the University of Leipzig, where he remained until his death Read more

Theodor Schwann was a prolific writer who published around twenty research papers and more than 70 books as well as 3,000 letters. He died on December 29, 1855 in Leipzig.

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The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts–the cells. Theodor Schwann
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms. Theodor Schwann