Richard Woltereck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Woltereck

German zoologist

Date of Birth: 06-Apr-1877

Place of Birth: Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany

Date of Death: 23-Feb-1944

Profession: zoologist, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Richard Woltereck (April 6, 1877 – February 23, 1944) was a German zoologist best known for developing the concept of reaction norm (German: Reaktionsnorm).
He also conducted some of the first research that provided evidence for the process of cytoplasmic inheritance.
He proposed the concept in a 1909 paper that he presented to the German Zoological Society, based on his own research on the Daphnia water flea.
According to historian Raphael Falk, the concept of the reaction norm was later revived by Richard Lewontin.