Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun august_friedrich_leopold_weismann

1 sense of august friedrich leopold weismann

Sense 1
Weismann, August Friedrich Leopold Weismann -- (German biologist who was one of the founders of modern genetics; his theory of genetic transmission ruled out the possibility of transmitting acquired characteristics (1834-1914))
       INSTANCE OF=> geneticist -- (a biologist who specializes in genetics)