Book chapter
The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life Under the Microscope
Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life, pp 39-58
08 Aug 2012
Abstract
The tedium and torture that Vinogradskii associated with his apprenticeship in St. Petersburg did not long dissuade him from a scientific career. He spent the summer of 1885 recuperating and dabbling in scientific farming on his Kiev estate, still considering the same career alternatives that he had during his gymnasium days. The local botanical excursions he enjoyed with his mother and the experiments he conducted in his home laboratory attest to his enduring interest in botany, an interest that finally won out over a life as a gentleman farmer. That fall he departed for Strassburg and one of the foremost botanical teaching laboratories in Europe, where he would commit himself to a field of study that was itself just emerging from disciplinary chaos. During Vinogradskii’s “Strassburg period”—the years from 1885 to 1888—he intensively investigated the physiology of several “peculiar” microscopic organisms.
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- Title
- The Laboratory is Nature: Investigating the Cycle of Life Under the Microscope
- Creators
- Lloyd Ackert - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Sergei Vinogradskii and the Cycle of Life, pp 39-58
- Series
- Archimedes
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85101996111
- Other Identifier
- 991019173622104721