Hans Molisch

Hans Molisch bust at the University of Vienna

Hans Molisch (December 6, 1856, Brünn, Habsburg Moravia - December 8, 1937, Wien, Austria) was a Czech-Austrian botanist.

He taught as a professor at the German University of Prague (1894-), Vienna University (1909-1928), Tohoku Imperial University (now Tohoku University, Japan; 1922-1925), and a university in India.

From 1931 to 1937 he acted as the vice-president of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Hans Molisch expanded on Julius von Sachs's work by developing ´starch pictures´ in intact leaves by using actual photographic negatives as masks over the illuminated leaves.^[1]

Literary works

• Die Pflanzen in ihren Beziehungen zum Eisen, 1892
• Leuchtende Pflanzen, 1904
• Die Purpurbakterien, 1907
• Die Eisenbakterien, 1910
• Mikrochemie der Pflanzen, 1913
• Pflanzenphysiologie, 1920
• Pflanzenphysiologie in Japan, 1926
• Im Lande der aufgehenden Sonne, 1927

References

1. Discoveries in Photosynthesis edited by Govindjee, J.T. Beatty, H. Gest, J.F. Allen
2. IPNI.  Molisch.

External links

• Hans Molisch in the German National Library catalogue