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John Turberville Needham (* 10. September 1713 in London; † 30. Dezember 1781 in Brüssel) war ein römisch-katholischer Priester und englischer Naturforscher .
John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest. He was first exposed to natural philosophy while in seminary school and later published a paper which, while the subject was mostly about geology, described the mechanics of pollen and won recognition in the ...
Naturforscher, *10.9.1713 London, †30.12.1781 Brüssel; katholischer Priester, seit 1768 Mitglied der Royal Society; überzeugter Vertreter der Spontanzeugung (führte 1748 zusammen mit G.L.L. von Buffon Experimente zum Nachweis von animalcules durch) und des Vitalismus; beschrieb 1745 erstmals die Needham-Schläuche; nach ihm benannt sind ...
28. März 2024 · John Needham (born September 10, 1713, London, England—died December 30, 1781, Brussels, Belgium) was an English naturalist and Roman Catholic divine, the first clergyman of his faith to become a fellow of the Royal Society of London (1768).
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John Turberville Needham, more commonly known as John Needham, was an English naturalist and Roman Catholic cleric. He was the first clergyman to be elected to the Royal Society of London. He is also noted for his theory of spontaneous generation and the scientific evidence he had presented to support it. Advertisements Early Life: Born
English Naturalist. T he English naturalist John Needham conducted a series of experiments that seemed to provide proof of spontaneous generation—the sudden appearance of organisms from nonliving materials. His work spurred that of Italian scientist Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799), who conducted similar experiments, but had opposite results.
URING THE 1740s, the prevailing preformationist view of generation was challenged by three epigenetic theories, proposed by Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Georges Louis de Buffon, and John Turberville Needham.' All. three theories rejected the belief that organisms preexist in the germ and relied.
