Hirase Sakugorō
Botanist
Died when: 68 years 327 days (826 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Hirase Sakugorō (平瀬作五郎, February 12, 1856 – January 4, 1925) was a Japanese botanist and painter.Born into a samurai family in Fukui, Hirase discovered the spermatozoids of the ginkgo in January 1894, before Seiichiro Ikeno discovered the spermatozoids of the cycad.
He is a laureate of the Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy (1912).
Related People
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License