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 | | It was in this context that the courage and independence of thought of the founders of experimental embryology, Wilhelm Roux, Hans Driesch, Ross Harrison and Hans Spemann, served as an inspiration to an entire generation of emerging biologists and embryologists. |
 | | Spemann's department was dominated by experimental embryology and a fellow student Hilde Mangold (nee Proescholdt) was just beginning her Ph.D. project involving research that later became famous as the organizer experiment, which won Spemann the Nobel Prize in 1935. |
 | | Many of the discoveries of the Spemann school, and later those of Hamburger, came not from doing what was fashionable, but from a deep understanding of developmental events based on detailed observations of experimental material. |
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