EMIL GODLEWSKI SENIOR (1847–1930) PIONEER OF POLISH PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Journal Title: Studia Historiae Scientiarum - Year 2010, Vol 10, Issue
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Emil Godlewski sen. was born in 1847 in Krasocin (near Kielce), and he died in 1930 in Kraków. He devoted his scientific activity mainly to plant physiology, which in that time started the development on the world as a modern science. Julius Sachs (plant physiologist) and Edward Strasburger (cytologist and embryologist) – splendid scientists who worked in Germany were regarded as his masters. All his long life Godlewski led intensive scientific, organizational and teaching activities. E. Godlewski is an author over 220 publications. This creativity contain 62 original scientific publications, among which 43 are physiology of plants works mostly experimental, others connected with agricultural sciences. Godlewski’s publications were known in science and bring him international recognition. His works were published in periodic such as: „Arbeiten des Botanischen Instituts in Würzburg“, „Flora“ (Regensburg), „Botanische Zeitung“, „Pringsheim’s Jahrbücher für Wissenschaftliche Botanik“, „Biologisches Centralblatt“, „Botanisches Centralblatt“, „Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Krakau“. Godlewski’s research current scientific problems of plant physiology. He interested in many physiological processes: photosynthesis, respiration, growth, etiolation, metabolic transformations of proteins, nitrification, water transport and tropisms. Some of his works were pioneering (e.g. experiments on plants and lichens respiration). Godlewski is remembered in science as an author original research methods, and as a creator of the physiological instruments (e.g. apparatus for plants respiration). Godlewski was active member of Academy of Arts and Sciences, he worked in Class III Mathematics and Nature. He created own scientific school which had large significance for plant physiology development in Poland. In this school he educated many young scientists. His scholars continued professors scientific work in significant research institutions
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