Simon Schwendener (1829 - 1919)
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Biography
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Biography
Schwenender is most famous for being the guy to figure out that lichens are a fungus and an alga living together in symbiosis. Actually, it's more complicated than that. But he's the guy who first figured it out.
Other than that, he seems to have been quite the famous German professor, with many large books with long, impressive German titles on "the mechanical problems of Botany" (whatever those are), and the tropisms (bending towards light or away from the ground) of plants. He also co-authored a popular textbook on The Microscope in Theory and Practice with Karl Nägeli.
Selected Publications
Simon Schwendener (2001) "Die Flechten als Parasiten der Algen" (The lichens as parasites of algae) in Verhandlungen der Nauturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 5:4 pp. 527 - 550
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Genera
Thamnidium Tuckerman: Schwendener
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