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Baer Island in the Kara Sea was named after Karl Ernst von Baer for his important contributions to the research of arctic meteorology between 1830 and 1840. [30] A duck, Baer's pochard, was also named after him. Statue of Karl Ernst von Baer on Toome Hill, Tartu: As a tradition, students wash the statue's head with champagne every Walpurgis ...
Metchnikoff won the Karl Ernst von Baer prize in 1867 with Alexander Kovalevsky based on their doctoral research. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908 with Paul Ehrlich . He was awarded honorary degree from the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1906.
B. Karl Ernst von Baer; Karl Gustav von Baggovut; Johann Karl Bähr; List of Baltic Germans; Peter von Baranoff; Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly; Ernesto Bark
His work in embryology was continued by Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876), who expanded Pander's concept of germ layers to include all vertebrates. Pander performed important studies in the field of paleontology , being known for his extensive research on fossils found in the Devonian and Silurian geological strata of the Baltic regions.
Wernher von Braun Robert Bunsen Carl von Clausewitz, father of modern military theory. Walter Baade: astronom, discovered together with Fritz Zwicky, he identified supernovae as a new category of astronomical objects; Karl Ernst von Baer: discovered mammal ovum. Ralph Baer: Inventor of the first home video game console. Adolf von Baeyer: Chemist.
Karl Ernst von Baer: 1792–1876 a founding father of embryology, naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer Kroon 2 KR obverse 1992–2010 Paul Keres: 1916–1975 chess grandmaster Kroon 5 KR obverse 1992–2010 Jakob Hurt: 1839–1907 folklorist, theologist and linguist Kroon 10 KR obverse 1992–2010 A. H. Tammsaare: 1878–1940
Embryology theories of Ernst Haeckel (following Meckel) and Karl Ernst von Baer compared. Von Baer denied any recapitulation of whole adult forms, though individual structures might be recapitulated. In developmental biology, von Baer's laws of embryology (or laws of development) are four rules proposed by Karl Ernst von Baer to explain the ...
He is best known for reducing Karl Ernst von Baer's four germ layers to three: the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. He also discovered unmyelinating Schwann cells that surround peripheral nerve fibres, now named Remak cells, and the nerve cells in the heart sometimes called Remak's ganglia.