Fritz Noll

Fritz Noll (August 27, 1858 - June 19, 1908) was a German botanist born in Frankfurt am Main.

He studied natural history and sciences at the Universities of Würzburg, Marburg and Heidelberg. In 1887 he became an assistant to Julius Sachs at the University of Würzburg, and during the same year received his habilitation. In 1889 he was appointed etatsmäßigen professor at the agricultural academy at Poppelsdorf-Bonn, as well as an associate professor at the University of Bonn. In 1907 he became a professor of botany at the University of Halle.

Noll made contributions involving research of plant physiology. With Eduard Strasburger, Heinrich Schenck and Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper, he was co-author of a textbook that was later translated into English by the title "A Text-book of Botany". Other noted works by Noll include:

• Experimentelle Untersuchungen über das Wachstum der Zellmembran, 1887 - Experimental research on the growth of the cell membrane.
• Über heterogene Induktion; Versuch eines Beitrags zur Kenntnis der Reizerscheinungen der Pflanzen, 1892 - On heterogeneous induction, etc.
• Das Sinnesleben der Pflanzen, 1896 - The "mental life" of plants
• Julius von Sachs : ein Nachruf, 1897 - Obituary of Julius von Sachs
• Ueber Geotropismus, 1900 - On geotropism
• Über das Etiolement der Pflanzen, 1901 - On etiolation of plants
• Zur Keimungs-Physiologie der Cucurbitaceen, 1901 - Germination-physiology of Cucurbitaceae.
• Zur Controverse über den Geotropismus, 1902 - Controversy concerning geotropism
• Beobachtungen und Betrachtungen über embryonale Substanz, 1903 - Observations and considerations on embryonic substance.
• "Algae and related subjects - collected works", translated into English in 1893.^[1]

References

• Catalogus-professorum-halensis (translated biography of Fritz Noll)