Paolo Enriques, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paolo Enriques

Italian zoologist

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1878

Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1932

Profession: zoologist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Paolo Enriques (17 August 1878 in Leghorn – 26 December 1932 in Rome) was an Italian zoologist.
Enriques taught Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Sassari (1917 to 1921), then in 1922 he became Professor of Zoology in the University of Padua University, and Director of the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy.
He was primarily interested in comparative cytology, physiology and genetics.
He wrote “Teoria cellulare” or, in English Cellular Theory (1911), “Eredità dell’uomo” or Inheritance in Man (1924), and “Le leggi di Mendel e i cromosomi” or Mendel’s Laws and Chromosomes (1932).
He died in a car accident in Rome.