author
Fritz Noll
1858–1908
A German botanist and science writer, he helped shape early plant physiology and is remembered for work on topics like tropisms and parthenocarpy. His career moved through several major universities, linking careful experiment with clear teaching.
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Lehrbuch der Botanik für Hochschulen
by Eduard Strasburger, Fritz Noll, H. (Heinrich) Schenck, A. F. W. (Andreas Franz Wilhelm) Schimper
About the author
Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1858, he studied natural history and science at the universities of Würzburg, Marburg, and Heidelberg before building his academic career in botany. He worked with the influential botanist Julius Sachs at Würzburg, earned his habilitation in 1887, and later held professorships in agriculture and botany.
His main field was plant physiology, and he is especially associated with experimental work on how plants grow and respond to stimuli. Standard reference sources also note him as a writer as well as a botanist, which fits his lasting presence in scientific and educational texts.
He died in 1908 in Halle. Although he is not a widely known public figure today, his name still appears in botanical history, particularly in connection with early research on seedless fruit development and the broader study of plant movement and growth.