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Slide Show: Life of Emil Witschi (1890-1971)

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1911 Oil painting by Swiss artist Ulrich Wilhelm Züricher (1877- 1961), of Martha Mühlestein. Emil Witschi married her in 1914.	1913 Hermann Poppelbaum, Emil Witschi, E. Lindner, and an unidentified man, in Richard Hertwig's laboratory, Munich, 1913	1919 Cover of Witschi's book of children's stories, "Von Blumen und Tieren", Verlag E. Bircher, Bern, 1919.
Undated, circa 1920 Richard B. Goldschmidt (1878-1958), zoologist and geneticist; and an important teacher, colleague, and friend of Emil Witschi. Goldschmidt was Richard Hertwig's assistant during Witschi's studies in Munich. In 1922, as Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Biology in Berlin, Goldschmidt hired Witschi as a research fellow at the Institute.	Undated, circa 1925 Emil Witschi, at around the time he came the United States	Undated, circa 1932 Witschi family picnic. From the left: 4th, Hans Witschi; 6th, Harriet McCurdy Blanchard, one of Witschi's first graduate students; 8th, Marianne Witschi; 9th, Martha Witschi; 10th, Emil Witschi. Others are unidentified. What ARE they cooking?
Undated watercolor, circa 1933 Garden and tennis court at Witschi home, 311 Woolf Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa. The artist is unidentified.	Undated, circa 1938 From l-to-r: Martha Witschi, Emil Witschi, Harriet McCurdy Blanchard, at laboratory in Lake Okiboji, Iowa.	May 20, 1939 Prof. Emil Witschi and his wife Martha., at their home in Iowa City.
June 1, 1950 At the airport, Iowa City. From l-to-r: Chih-Ye Chang, Joyce Bruner-Lorand, unidentified woman, Blacky Minimitsu, unidentified man, Martha Witschi, Sheldon J. Segal. Chiang, Bruner-Lorand, and Segal were students of Witschi.	1950 Emil and Martha Witschi in their home, Iowa City, Iowa	1950 Martha and Emil Witschi at their home in Iowa City, Iowa, with their new Chevrolet Sport Coupe.
1950 Martha and Emil Witschi in their home, Iowa City, Iowa.	Undated, circa 1955 Emil Witschi in his University of Iowa laboratory. The amphibian on Witschi's left arm is a male bullfrog. Witschi often used frogs and toads in his research, beginning with his 1913 dissertation.	July, 1958 Martha and Emil Witschi at Charles Darwin's home, Down House, in Downe, England. Photo by Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001). Hamburger was an embryologist and endocrinologist, and friend of Witschi.

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