LOEB, Jacques (1859 – 1924)
1859 – 1924
9 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1890
#125
Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.
Loeb founded the theory of “tropisms” as the basis of the psychology of the lower forms of life. English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol. 1, 1-88. Chicago, 1905.
1894 –1895
#511
Ueber die Grenzen der Theilbarkeit der Eisubstanz.
English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol.l., Chicago, 1905.
1899
#515.1
On the nature of the process of fertilization and the artificial production of normal larvae (plutei) from the unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin.
Loeb first achieved parthenogenesis in 1899.
1899
#1428
Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.
1906
#654
The dynamics of living matter.
1908
#524
Ueber den chemischen Character des Befruchtungvorgangs.
1909
#525
Die chemische Entwicklungserregung des tierischen Eies; künstiiche Parthenogenese.
Artificial parthenogenesis. For Loeb’s first paper on this subject see No. 515.1. Translated and revised in Loeb’s Artificial parthenogenesis and fertilization, 1913.
1912
#135
The mechanistic conception of life.
This work established Loeb's reputation as a researcher who treated organisms as machines. He stated that biologists explain organic phenomena only when they could control those phenomena. Loeb first published the tit…
1924
#139