biography
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Hensen, (Christian Andreas) Viktor
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1835–1924)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Kiel, N Germany. He was a professor at Kiel (1871–1911), did research work on embryology, and the anatomy of the organs of sense (the Hensen duct in the ear), and investigated in a survey of the Atlantic the production of marine fauna which he named plankton. |
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