Martin Heinrich Rathke
1793–1860
German embryologist and anatomist. Professor of zoology and anatomy in Königsberg, 1835–60. Studied marine organisms and the embryonic development of sex organs.
Sources
ADB
DSB.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
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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