Ernst Haeckel formulated his biogenetic law, famously stating that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, in 1872. The Russian evolutionist Alexei Sewertzoff, and the Swiss-born zoologist Adolf Naef were ...
When Nature's centenary issue of 1900 listed the most important scientists of the age, only one German biologist was included: Ernst Haeckel, professor of zoology at the University of Jena. Reckoned ...