Julius Wolff

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Julius Wolff (1836 – 1902 in Berlin) was a German surgeon who served as military surgeon during the Franco-Prussian War and some other minor campaigns.

Wolff proposed that mechanical stress was responsible for determining the architecture of bone. Remodeling of bone occurs in response to physical stresses - or to the lack of them - in that bone is deposited in sites subjected to stress and is resorbed from sites where there is little stress.