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Driesch

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/ driːʃ /

noun

  1. Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

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She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2018

And Driesch holds it to be impossible to distribute a complicated tectonic among the elements of an equipotential system.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Numbers of high authorities have not thought it so; and in quite recent years such eminent writers as Driesch and McDougal have written erudite works to prove this "unscientific" hypothesis.

From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

Driesch succeeded also in disturbing the normal course and order of segmentation by compressing the eggs of the sea-urchin between glass plates, and yet obtained normal embryos.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Driesch has tried to show that we are absolutely not able to Vitalism. understand development, at any rate one part of it, i.e. the localization of the various successive steps of differentiation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various