Hermann Henking, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German biologist
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Place of Birth: Jerxheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Hermann Henking
- Hermann Paul August Otto Henking (16 June 1858 – 28 April 1942) was a cytologist who discovered the X chromosome in 1890 or 1891.
- The work was the result of a study in Leipzig of the testicles of the firebug (Pyrrhocoris) during which Henking noticed that one chromosome did not take part in meiosis.
- He named this X element because its strange behaviour made him unsure whether it was genuinely a chromosome.
- It later became X chromosome after it was established that it was indeed a chromosome.
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