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Albert Frey-Wyssling

Laureate 1949: Albert Frey-Wyssling

“[…] for his work on submicroscopic morphology published in 1949 […]. Following many years of systematic work researching the fine structure of cell walls and plant plasma components that are invisible under an optical microscope, he observed that submiscroscopic morphology offered the same perfect forms and complicated problems of form as the optical miscroscopic universe. It was therefore hoped that the same method could be used in future to reveal the fine structure of animal and human cells.”

Die einzigartige Leistung F.s bestehe laut den Gutachtern nicht zuletzt in der Tatsache, dass er den von ihm zuerst nur indirekt erschlossenen Feinbau der Zellbestandteile anschliessend mittels elektronenmikroskopischer Untersuchungen bestätigen konnte. Auf diese Weise sind ihm Abbildungen von verschiedenen seiner Voraussagen gelungen, so vom Schichtenaufbau der Chloroplasten, von der Mikrofibrillenstruktur der Zellwände sowie vom Gelbau von Bakterienzellulose (Retikularstruktur).

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