William Seifriz was a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania and an important figure in the history of plant physiology and plant cell biology.
14 Facts About William Seifriz
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William Seifriz continued to do research at Imperial College London and King's College London in England.
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William Seifriz spent time with Ernest Rutherford, Jacobus van't Hoff, Svante Arrhenius, Niels Bohr, Max Planck, Walther Nernst and Max von Laue.
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William Seifriz loved animals and kept birds, monkeys, donkeys, cats, rabbits, peacocks and a dog.
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William Seifriz died on July 13,1955, while collecting botanical specimens near the Chesapeake Bay.
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William Seifriz was an Associate Editor for the journal Protoplasma from its founding in 1926 to his death in 1955.
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William Seifriz was an Associate Editor of Journal of Colloid Science and Biodynamica.
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William Seifriz was a Seessel Fellow at Yale University from 1922 to 1923.
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William Seifriz became an instructor at the University of Michigan in 1923 and came to the University of Pennsylvania as a National Research Fellow in 1924 and became a professor of protoplasmatology and plant geography in 1925.
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William Seifriz was a naturalist and a laboratory scientist who studied the viscoelastic properties and microscopic structure of protoplasm.
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William Seifriz proposed that the physical properties of protoplasm were a consequence of long chain molecules attached to one another like a brush heap.
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William Seifriz studied the streaming protoplasm of the slime mold Physarum polycephalum and coined the word, protoplasmatologist for someone who studies the properties of living protoplasm.
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William Seifriz wrote to Dr Seifriz, asking if he could go to work in his laboratory.
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William Seifriz used cinematography to make a movie entitled, William Seifriz on Protoplasm, which won prizes at several film festivals and was shown on television.