Jantina Tammes
Jantine Tammes ( born June 23, 1871 in Groningen, † September 20, 1947 ibid ) was a Dutch botanist.
Career
Jantine Tammes visited in 1883 the girls middle school. With this design it was not possible for her to receive a university education, the access rates were limited to high schools for girls. Therefore, they first took private lessons in the natural sciences. 1890 Jantine Tammes went to the University of Groningen. There, women were allowed to study, admission to the exam but did not get it. In 1896 Tammes founded together with two other students the Walking Club, the oldest sorority in the Netherlands. 1898, the club in Groningen Female Student Society was renamed, in 1912 he was given the name Magna Pete. Jantine Tammes put 1892 a teachers certificate for the subjects of physics, chemistry and geography from, in 1897 it acquired another for the subjects of botany, zoology, mineralogy and geology. Your livelihood denied Jantine Tammes first as a teacher at a girls' middle school. As a result, she took a job as assistant at JW Molls on, who worked as a professor of botany at the University of Groningen. He gave her a research stay in the laboratory of plant geneticist Hugo de Vries in Amsterdam. Jantine Tammes was able to deepen their knowledge in the field of evolution and genetics.
Back in Groningen, she did research on these issues and developed the genetic experiments de Vries on. The University also were entrusted with the care of the student botanical internships. Due to a wide -scale campaign of minor and experts' support of renowned botanist Jantine Tammes received in 1919 as an associate professor of variability and heredity. She remained until her retirement in 1937 in this position.
Scientific work
Jantine Tammes has contributed substantial knowledge of plant genetics. In their technical paper published in 1911 The behavior of fluctuating varying features in the bastardization they figured that the multiple -factor hypothesis can explain the inheritance of continuous traits. Although their scientific work that their colleagues Nilsson - Ehle exceeded and they also provided more experimental data as evidence, their findings in the history of botany her colleagues were attributed.
Appreciation
For their contribution to plant genetics, the University of Groningen Jantine Tammes awarded an honorary doctorate in 1912.
Swell
- Renate Strohmeyer: Encyclopedia of natural scientists and natural knowledgeable women in Europe. Verlag Harri German, ISBN 3-8171-1567-9, pp. 267 f