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Driesch

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/ driːʃ /

noun

  1. Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

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She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2018

Numbers of high authorities have not thought it so; and in quite recent years such eminent writers as Driesch and McDougal have written erudite works to prove this "unscientific" hypothesis.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

Was not his mother, Widow Driesch, a downright honest woman, a God-fearing woman besides, to whom every one must take off his hat?

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

The phenomena upon which Driesch lays considerable stress are those which occur upon a division of certain living embryos.

From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton

The labours of Roux, as well as the valuable researches of Driesch, induced me to carry out a series of experiments with the object of getting a surer basis for my epigenetic conception of development.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

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