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Darwin Correspondence Project

Wilhelm Roux

1850–1924

German experimental embryologist. Studied medicine in Jena, Berlin, and Straßburg (Strasbourg), 1873–8. Assistant at the hygienic institute in Leipzig, 1878–9. Worked at the anatomical institute in Breslau (Wrocław), 1879–89. Professor of anatomy at Innsbruck, 1889–95. Director of the anatomical institute at the University of Halle, 1895–1921.

Source

DSB

Bibliography

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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