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Gustav Senn

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Gustav Alfred Senn (9 November 1875 in Basel, Switzerland – 10 July 1945 in Basel) was a Swiss botanist and historian of botany. He was a student of Georg Klebs and worked on the movement and morphological changes of chloroplasts. He also studied Theophrastus.

Selected works

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The standard author abbreviation Senn is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]

  • Die Gestalts- und Lageveränderung der Pflanzen-Chromatophoren, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908.
  • Die Entwicklung der biologischen Forschungsmethode in der Antike und ihre grundsätzlitche Förderung durch Theophrast von Eresos, Aarau: H. R. Sauerländer & Company, 1933. Series "Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften", #8. OCLC 654748954.

References

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  • Obituary, d'Arcy W. Thompson, Nature 156 (8 September 1945), p. 289, doi:10.1038/156289a0.
  • Obituary, F. E. Weiss, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 158, #1, pp. 70–71, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1947.tb00444.x.
  • "Notes and Correspondence", George Sarton and Aubrey Diller, Isis 36, #2 (Jan. 1946), pp. 130–134, JSTOR 225877. (obituary)
  • "Gustav Senn (1875–1945): The pioneer of chloroplast movement research", Hironao Kataoka, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 57 #1 (Jan. 2015), pp. 4–13, doi:10.1111/jipb.12311.