Francis (Frank) Wall Oliver

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University College London, London, United Kingdom 
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(1864 - 1951)
DOI: 10.1098/rsbm.1952.0015 The summer of 1885 he spent at Bonn under Strasburger and there his association with A. F. W. Schimper and H. Schenck, the plant geographers, was the starting point of his interests in ecology. The following summer found him at Tübingen where Pfeffer, the then outstanding figure in plant physiology, set him the task of studying the phenomena of irritability in floral organs, especially the contractile stigmas of. Mimulus glutinosus which formed the subject of a paper in 1887
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Eduard Adolf Strasburger post-doc 1885 Universität Bonn (Marine Ecology Tree)
Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp Pfeffer post-doc 1886 Universität Tübingen (Systematics Tree)

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Arthur George Tansley research assistant 1889-1890 UCL
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes research assistant 1903 Imperial College London (Geotree)
Frederick Ernest Weiss grad student 1888 UCL
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