biography
| name: |
Baer, Karl Ernst von
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pronunciation:
[bair]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1792–1876)
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| biography:
| Naturalist, and pioneer in embryology, born in Piep, NE Estonia. After studying at Dorpat and Würzburg universities, he became professor at Königsberg (1817–34) and then at St Petersburg. He discovered the mammalian egg (ovum) in the ovary, and the notochord (embryo backbone), and formulated the ‘biogenetic law’ that in embryonic development general characters appear before special ones. |
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