References: Portraits, interviews and texts

Many scientists strive for professorship. Also in former times. At that time it often was sufficient to be a student of Wilhelm Pfeffer to be appointed to a university.

About life and work of Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845-1920) published by the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG).

The plant scientist wrote one of the best known textbooks on plant sciences already many decades ago. The book is still being published today. But the findings of Eduard Strasburger once were fiercely debated and some of them proven more than 60 years after their first publication.

Life and work of Eduard Strasburger (1844-1912) published by the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG).

"... what I have in notion is an ... anatomical and physiological view at the tissues, ... which will revive the ... dead theory of anatomy by explaining the relation between construction and function", Schwendener once described the objective of his research.

Life and work of Simon Schwendener (1829-1919) published by the German Society for Plant Sciences (DBG).