Schwann

[ shvahn; English shwahn ]

noun

1. The·o·dor [tey, -oh-daw, r], 1810–82, German zoologist.

Schwann

/ ʃvan /

noun

1. SchwannTheodor18101882MGermanSCIENCE: physiologist Theodor (ˈteːodoːr). 1810–82, German physiologist, who founded the theory that all animals consist of cells or cell products

Example Sentences

Theodore Schwann, the discoverer of the cell doctrine, deemed her condition natural.

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"You must hire the yacht of Schwann, just as you were instructed," Hunterleys pointed out.

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This important work dated back to 1842 and was inspired by his enthusiasm for the then novel cell-theory of Schleiden and Schwann.

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It was Schwann's merit to interpose between the tissue and the mere unorganised material a new element of structure, the cell.

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Schwann was only twenty-nine when his master-work appeared, and the book is clearly the work of a young man.

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