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Hilde Mangold

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Hilde Mangold was a German embryologist whose research was the first to show that there is a center in an embryo that controls the development of organs and tissues.[1] Mangold received a good education for a woman of her time and studied zoology at the University of Frankfurt.[2] She began her doctorate at only age 21, conducting research with Hans Spemann from 1920 to 1923.[1] The research on newt embryos that she did with Spemann led to a Nobel Prize.[3] Mangold died in 1924 at age 25 so only Spemann received the prize. [3] At the University of Freiburg, a cast of her gravestone hangs in the zoology building and she has a building named after her at the University as well.[1] The original slides of her experiment are archived at the Berlin Museum of Natural History.[1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Hilde Mangold". www.cibss.uni-freiburg.de. 2022-03-17. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  2. "The organiser: Hilde Mangold". Genetics Unzipped. 2020-09-10. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
  3. 1 2 VAN Robays, J. (2016-03-28). "Hilde Mangold-Pröscholdt (1898 - 1924): The Spemann-Mangold Organizer". Facts, Views & Vision in ObGyn. 8 (1): 63–68. ISSN 2032-0418. PMC 5096429. PMID 27822353.