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Boveri
Boveri is the surname of several people: * Giovanni Boveri (Boverius), (1568–1638), Italian jurist * Theodor Boveri (1862–1915), German biologist, brother of Walter Boveri *Marcella Boveri (1863–1950), US biologist, wife of Theodor Boveri *Walter Boveri (1865–1924), Swiss industrialist, co-founder of the company Brown, Boveri & Cie, brother of Theodor Boveri *Margret Boveri Margret Antonie Boveri (14 August 1900 – 6 July 1975) was one of the best-known German journalists and writers of the post-World War II period. She was a recipient of the German Critics' Prize and the Bundesverdienstkreuz. Life Margret Bover ... (1900–1975), German journalist and publicist, daughter of Marcella O'Grady and Theodor Boveri {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown, Boveri & Cie
Brown, Boveri & Cie. (Brown, Boveri & Company; BBC) was a Swiss group of electrical engineering companies. It was founded in Zürich, in 1891 by Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown and Walter Boveri who worked at the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1970 BBC took over the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon. In 1988 it merged with ASEA to form ABB. Early History of BBC Brown Boveri BBC Brown Boveri was established in 1891. The company was one of only a few multinational corporations to operate subsidiaries that were larger than the parent company. Because of the limitations of the Swiss domestic market, Brown Boveri established subsidiaries throughout Europe relatively early in its history, and at times had difficulty maintaining managerial control over some of its larger operating units. The merger with ASEA, a company which was praised for its strong management, was expected to help Brown Boveri reorganize and reassert control over its vast international network. Activity in Britain Brown Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodor Boveri
Theodor Heinrich Boveri (12 October 1862 – 15 October 1915) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and co-founder of modern cytology. He was notable for the first hypothesis regarding cellular processes that cause cancer, and for describing ''chromatin diminution in nematodes''. Boveri was married to the American biologist Marcella O'Grady (1863–1950). Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became one of the best-known journalists in post-World War II Germany. Work Using an optical microscope, Boveri examined the processes involved in the fertilization of the animal egg cell; his favorite research objects were the nematode '' Parascaris'' and sea urchins. Boveri's work with sea urchins showed that it was necessary to have all chromosomes present in order for proper embryonic development to take place. This discovery was an important part of the Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory. He also discovered, in 1888, the importance of the centrosome for the format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Boveri
Walter Boveri (born 21 February 1865 in Bamberg, Bavaria, died 28 October 1924 in Baden, Switzerland) was a Swiss-German industrialist and co-founder of the global electrical engineering group Brown, Boveri & Cie. (BBC). Biography Boveri's ancestors originally came from Savoy and settled at the beginning of the 17th century in Iphofen, Lower Franconia. By 1835 they were in Bamberg. Walter was born in 1865 as the third of four sons of the doctor Theodor Boveri. The second oldest son Theodor Boveri junior became a well-known biologist. His brother Theodor married to biologist Marcella O'Grady and they were the parents of journalist Margret Boveri. As a 17-year-old Walter Boveri joined the Royal Engineering School in Nuremberg. He finished this in 1885 and then moved to Switzerland. There he was first volunteer and later assembly manager for electrical systems at Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO). In 1887, Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown, technical director of MFO, envisaged set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margret Boveri
Margret Antonie Boveri (14 August 1900 – 6 July 1975) was one of the best-known German journalists and writers of the post-World War II period. She was a recipient of the German Critics' Prize and the Bundesverdienstkreuz. Life Margret Boveri was born in Würzburg, Germany, the daughter of German biologist Theodor Boveri and American biologist Marcella O'Grady Boveri. Her father died in 1915 and her mother returned to the USA in 1925. She studied history and political science in Munich and Berlin. From 1934 she worked in the Foreign Affairs section of the ''Berliner Tageblatt'' newspaper, where she was promoted by the editor, Paul Scheffer. Heike B. Görtemaker: ''Ein deutsches Leben. Die Geschichte der Margret Boveri, München'', 2005 From 1939 until 1943 (when the newspaper was banned) she worked as foreign correspondent for the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'' newspaper in Stockholm and New York City. She was awarded the War Merit Medal by the Nazi Government in 1941; she herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcella Boveri
Marcella Boveri (née O'Grady; October 7, 1863 – October 24, 1950) was an American biologist. She was married to the German biologist Theodor Boveri (1862–1915). Their daughter Margret Boveri (1900–1975) became one of the best-known post-war German journalists. Life She was born Marcella O'Grady in Boston, the daughter of Irish immigrants. She attended Girls' High School in Boston. She studied with William Thompson Sedgwick at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became the first woman to receive a degree in biology from MIT. After she completed her post-graduate studies in Harvard University O'Grady worked as an assistant to the zoologist Edmund Beecher Wilson at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. She was awarded the Fellowship in Biology for 1887-1889 for advanced study at Bryn Mawr College, a very rare award for a woman in those days. In 1889 she transferred as associate professor to Vassar College, and became full professor there in 1893. During this tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boverius
Giovanni Boveri (Boverius) ( Saluzzo, 1568-Genoa, 1638) was an Italian jurist, who became a Capuchin Friar Minor, taking the name Zacharias. He is known as a historian and theologian. According to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedia'') i ...he was a “man of great learning not only as an historian, but as a controversial writer”. Works *''Orthodoxa consultatio de ratione verae fidei et religionis amplectenda'' (Cologne, 1626) *''Annales Ordinis Minorum Capuccinorum'' (Lyon, 1632) See also * Boveri (disambiguation page) References *Arthur von Schaching, ''Die Schrift des P. Zacharias Boverius o. cap. "Orthodoxa consultatio de ratione verae fidei et religionis amplectendae"'', Eichstätt 1937. External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Boverius 1568 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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