Hans Spemann

Presents the story of Hans Spemann just after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Discusses his experiments on the separation of the first two cells of an embryo, the induction of a lens in a frog by an optic vesicle and the primary organizer, which is a dynamic center that establishes the basic organization of the embryo.

Credits

John Quick; Tom Hutcheson; Richard M. Eakin (1910–1999); University of California, Berkeley; University of California (System). Extension Media Center

More in Great Scientists Speak Again Series

  1. Gregor Mendel 1974
  2. William Harvey 1974
  3. Hans Spemann 1976
  4. William Beaumont 1976

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