LOEB, Jacques (1859 – 1924)

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

Regeneration from a physico-chemical viewpoint.