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August Weismann was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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August Weismann met his wife in 1859 during his stay in Italy. They had six children together. Music was a large part of their life, and their son became musician and composer.
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Weismann studied medicine, zoology, and characteristics through inheritance. He also proposed the germ plasm theory. This theory shows that while the body lives for only one generation, hereditary material, is passed from generation to generation through germ cells without change.
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Weismann became the Director of the Zoological Institute and the first Professor of Zoology at Freiburg.
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The majority of time spent on the "Germ Plasm Theory" was taken place at the University of Gieben with his lab partner Rudolf Leuckart.
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Weismann cut the tails off 68 mice each generation, for 5 generations. This caused protests which led to a relocation for Weismann''s expiraments in the underground basement of Shaumberg Castle.
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August Weismann discovered that inheritence only takes place in germ cells. Other cells of the body to not function as agents of heredity.
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Julian Huxley was Born in London.
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Julian Huxley's mother died from cancer, leaving behind a husband, 3 sons, and an eight year old daughter.
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Julian Huxley studied Embryology and Protoza at Oxford University.
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Julian carried out his major work at King's College, London, where he became a professor of Zoology.
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Huxley was invited to the U.S on a lecturing tour. A few weeks later came the attack on Pearl Harbor. When the USA joined the war, he found it difficult to get a passage back to the UK, and his lecture tour was extended.
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Julian Huxley's greatest contribution was Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, which showed that Mendelian genetics was consistent with natural selection and gradual evolution.
