Wettstein, Friedrich#
b. Prague (Czech Republic), June 14, 1895, d. Trins (Tyrol), Feb. 12, 1945, botanist, son of Richard Wettstein. Moved to Vienna with his parents in 1899; Professor at the Universities of Goettingen, Munich and Berlin. genetic research on plants; one of the first to recognise the function of the constituent parts of cell plasma as carriers of genetic information.
Publications#
Morphologie und Physiologie des Formwechsels der Moose auf genetischer Grundlage, 1924; Ueber plasmatische Vererbung, 1930.