Walter Max Zimmermann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German botanist
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Place of Birth: Walldürn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Walter Max Zimmermann
- Walter Max Zimmermann (May 9, 1892 – June 30, 1980) was a German botanist and systematist.
- Zimmernann’s notions of classifying life objectively based on phylogenetic methods and on evolutionarily important characters were foundational for modern phylogenetics.
- Though they were later implemented by Willi Hennig in his fundamental work on phylogenetic systematics, Zimmermann's contributions to this field have largely been overlooked.
- Zimmermann also made several significant developments in the field of plant systematics such as the discovery of the telome theory.
- The standard botanical author abbreviation W.Zimm.
- is applied to species he described.
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