Jan Willem Moll (3 June 1851 – 24 September 1933) was a Dutch botanist and plant physiologist who worked as a professor at the University of Groningen. A major work by him was a systematic catalog of European fungi, the Enumeratio systematica fungorum in omnium herbarum.
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Moll was born in Amsterdam to Annetta Elisabeth Henriette Theodora Voet and Dr Willem Moll. He studied at the Athenaeum Illustre, Amsterdam before going to Leiden University. He taught for a while in Utrecht before he became a professor at the University of Groningen in 1890 and served as Rector Magnificus of the University in 1909-10. He was a close associate of Hugo de Vries and his student Tine Tammes worked on Mendelian inheritance of quantitative traits.[1][2] He developed both laboratory and field techniques for conducting experiments on plant physiology.[3][4] He helped establish agricultural education and research in the Netherlands.[5]
References
edit- ^ Stamhuis, Ida H. (1995). "A Female Contribution to Early Genetics: Tine Tammes and Mendel's Laws for Continuous Characters". Journal of the History of Biology. 28 (3): 495–531. doi:10.1007/BF01059390. ISSN 0022-5010. JSTOR 4331365. PMID 11609021. S2CID 42785250.
- ^ Schiemann, Elisabeth (1949). "Tine Tammes zum Gedächtnis". Der Züchter (in German). 19 (7): 181–184. doi:10.1007/BF00709931. ISSN 0514-0641. S2CID 35044243.
- ^ Schoute, J. C. (1935-01-01). "Professor Moll's Method of determining the Amount of Sunshine on Greenhouses". Recueil des travaux botaniques néerlandais. 32 (1): 311–316. ISSN 0370-7504.
- ^ Moll, J. W. (1888). "The Application of the Paraffin-Imbedding Method in Botany". Botanical Gazette. 13 (1): 5–14. doi:10.1086/326213. ISSN 0006-8071. JSTOR 2994059. S2CID 84857858.
- ^ Schoute, J. C. (1934). "In memoriam Prof. Dr JW Moll" (PDF). Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief. 3. 44 (1): 106–109.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. J.Moll.