Famous People with Name Flemming

Walther Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walther Flemming: was a German biologist and the founder of cytogenetics.Flemming trained in medicine at the University of Rostock, graduating in 1868. Afterwards. he served in 1870-1871 as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War. From 1873 to 1876 he worked as a teacher at the University of Prague. In 1876 he accepted a post as a professor of anatomy at the University of Kiel. He became the director of the Anatomical Institute and stayed there until his death.Making use of aniline dyes he was able to find a structure which strongly absorbed basophilic dyes, which he named chromatin. He identified that chromatin was correlated to threadlike structures in the cell nucleus— the chromosomes (meaning coloured body), which were thus named later on by German anatomist Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921).

Heino Heinrich Reichsgraf Von Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heino Heinrich Reichsgraf Von Flemming: was a Saxon, later Brandenburger army leader and Field Marshal and Governor of Berlin.Flemming came from an old noble Brandenburg family that probably emigrated from the Netherlands. After a comprehensive education at German universities, Flemming fought the Ottoman Turks as a Colonel of Auxiliary Troops in the service of Brandenburg. Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, sent him to the King of Poland in 1672.

Paul Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Paul Flemming: a Canadian curler.Paul's junior team had a stellar record, yet failed to win the Nova Scotia Junior Men's Championship, losing 4 provincial finals. In 1987 The team of Paul Flemming, Mike Mawhinney, Glen MacLeod, and Chris Oxner represented Nova Scotia at

Carl Friedrich Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Carl Friedrich Flemming: was a German psychiatrist born in Jüterbog. He was the father of cellular biologist Walther Flemming (1843-1905). After receiving his medical doctorate from Berlin, he worked as an assistant at the Irrenheilanstalt Sonnenschein (Sonnenschein mental asylum) near Pirna. From 1830 to 1854 he was director of the new psychiatric hospital at Sachsenberg. From 1854 he maintained a private practice in Schwerin.

Marialiese Flemming            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Marialiese Flemming: is an Austrian Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the European People's Party (Austrian People's Party domestically) and was first elected during the 1996 European Parliament election for Austria. Her European Parliamentary career ended