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Albert F. Frey-Wyssling

Swiss botanist
Also known as: Albert Friedrich Frey-Wyssling

Albert F. Frey-Wyssling (born November 8, 1900, Küssnacht, Switzerland—died August 30, 1988) was a Swiss botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology, who helped to initiate the study later known as molecular biology. Frey-Wyssling was educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), the University of Jena, and the Sorbonne. From 1928 to 1932 he was a plant physiologist at Medan, Sumatra. He became a lecturer at ETH Zürich (1932), served as a...