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(1869–1941), German embryologist and Nobel laureate. Born on June 27, 1869, in Stuttgart, Germany, he started out as a medical student but became especially interested in comparative anatomy, in studies at the Universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Würzburg, earning degrees in zoology, botany, and physics in 1895. Three years later, he started lecturing in zoology at the University of Würzburg. In 1908, he became a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Rostock. He was chosen to be associate director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Biology at Berlin-Dahlem several years later, and, in 1919, he became a professor of zoology in at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Spemann's investigations focused on experimental He was awarded the 1935
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