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Wilhelm Pfeffer
Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845-1920)
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer (9 March 1845 – 31 January 1920) was a German botanist and plant physiologist born in Grebenstein.
Contents
1 Academic career
2 Scientific work
3 Written works
4 References
Academic career
He studied chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Göttingen,[1] where his instructors included Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882), William Eduard Weber (1804-1891) and Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig (1835-1910). Afterwards, he furthered his education at the universities of Marburg and Berlin. At Berlin, he studied under Alexander Braun (1805-1877) and was an assistant to Nathanael Pringsheim (1823-1894). Later on, he served as an assistant to Julius von Sachs (1832-1897) at Würzburg,
In 1873 he was appointed professor of pharmacology and botany at the University of Bonn, followed by professorships at the Universities of Basel (from 1877) and Tübingen (from 1878), where he also served as director of the Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen. In 1887 he became a professor at the University of Leipzig and director of its botanical garden.
He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1897.
Scientific work
Pfeffer was a pioneer of modern plant physiology. His scientific interests included the thermonastic and photonastic movements of flowers, the nyctinastic movements of leaves, protoplastic physics and photosynthesis. In 1877, while researching plant metabolism, Pfeffer developed a semi-porous membrane to study the phenomena of osmosis. The eponymous "Pfeffer cell" is named for the osmometric device he constructed for determining the osmotic pressure of a solution.[2]
During his tenure at Leipzig, Pfeffer published an article on the use of photography to study plant growth. He wanted to extend the chronophotographic experiments of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) by producing a short film involving the stages of plant growth. This "movie" would be filmed over a period of weeks by frame-at-a-time exposure taken at regular spaced intervals. Later, time-lapse photography would become a commonplace procedure.[3]
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The Pfeffer cell determines the osmotic pressure of a solution.
The Pfeffer cell was composed of a porous earthenware container, with a copper ferrocyanide precipitate, connected to a manometer.[4]
Osmotic pressure of dissolved sucrose (german: "Rohrzucker") obtained by Pfeffer (Table 9 from "Osmotische Untersuchungen", 1877)
Written works
Physiologische Untersuchungen - 1873 (Physiological studies)
Lehrbuch der Pflanzenphysiologie (Textbook of plant physiology).
Die periodischen Bewegungen der Blattorgane - 1875 (The periodic movements of "leaf organs")
Osmotische Untersuchungen – Studien zur Zellmechanik - 1877 (Osmotic studies)
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Oxydationsvorgänge in lebenden Zellen - 1889 (Contributions to the knowledge of the oxidative processes in living cells).
Über Aufnahme und Ausgabe ungelöster Körper - 1890
Studien zur Energetik der Pflanze - 1892 (Studies on the energetics of plants)
Druck- und Arbeitsleistung durch wachsende Pflanzen - 1893
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Schlafbewegungen der Blattorgane - 1907
Der Einfluss von mechanischer Hemmung und von Belastung auf die Schlafbewegung - 1911 (The influence of mechanical stress on the inhibition of sleep and movement).
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Entstehung der Schlafbewegungen- 1915 (Contributions to the knowledge on the genesis of sleep movements).
References
- List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
^ Pfeffer, Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
ISBN 3-428-00201-6, S. 309 f.
^ Botany online: Membranes and Transport - Osmosis Archived 2008-02-22 at the Wayback Machine at www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de
^ Who's Who of Victorian Cinema at www.victorian-cinema.net
^ Torrey Botanical Club (1909). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 36. General Books LLC. ISBN 0-217-72872-3.
^ IPNI. Pfeff.
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