Øjvind Winge

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Øjvind Winge
Born(1886-05-19)19 May 1886[1]
Died5 April 1964(1964-04-05) (aged 77) [1]
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsCarlsberg Laboratory
Thesis The chromosomes: their numbers and general importance
Author abbrev. (botany)
The standard author abbreviation Winge is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

Øjvind Winge (19 May 1886 – 5 April 1964) was a Danish biologist and a pioneer in yeast genetics.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Education

Winge was born in the city of

biological sciences into which he transferred. He graduated with a master's degree in the year 1910. From Copenhagen he travelled to Stockholm, Paris and Chicago, studying mainly chromosomal cytology before finally returning to the University of Copenhagen to do a doctoral thesis entitled The Chromosomes: Their Numbers and General Importance. In 1910 Winge was appointed chair of genetics at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
, Copenhagen, where amongst other works he wrote The Textbook in Genetics, published in 1928.

Career

In 1933 Winge was offered and accepted the position of Director of the Physiology Department in the

alternation and that strains can be genetically manipulated by specific mating. Winge also demonstrated that the traits of the organisms were mainly governed by simple Mendelian rules
. He continued his research and his lab produced a steady output of genetics papers until 1961.

Winge's work was of critical importance to the basic formation of early genetic engineering and biotechnology. He helped to establish a firm basis for what have now developed into important and lucrative scientific fields. For this reason he is often attributed the title of 'The Father of Yeast Genetics'.

Winge's 1917 hypothesis

In his 1917 doctoral thesis The Chromosomes: Their Numbers and General Importance, Winge presented his hypothesis of plant hybridization, which has motivated much research.[8]

Oenothera lamarckiana, which was later shown to be a tetraploid ... Winge ... subsequently observed that different chromosome numbers within genera followed an arithmetic progression of multiplication (within the Asteraceae
, for example, some species are 2n 18, others 2n 36, 54, and so on). This led Winge to propose a hypothesis of hybridisation followed by doubling of the chromosome complement. Successful attempts to create ‘synthetic’ polyploids confirmed this hypothesis and helped to demonstrate potential mechanisms by which polyploidy could arise naturally ...[9]

Awards and honours

Winge was elected foreign member of the Royal Society in 1947.[1][10]

Selected bibliography

  • Ferdinandsen, C. & Winge, Ø. (1910) Fungi from Professor
    Warming's expedition to Venezuela and the West Indies. Botanisk Tidsskrift
    , 30, 211-.
  • Ferdinandsen, C. & Winge, Ø. (1914) Ostenfeldiella - a new genus of Plasmodiophoraceae. Annals of Botany, 28, 643-649. Named for Carl Hansen Ostenfeld.
  • Winge Ø. (1914) Investigations on hops (Humulus lupulus, L.). III. The pollination and fertilization process in Humulus lupulus L. and H. japonicus Sieb. et. Zucc. Comptes Rendus des Travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg, 11, 1-46.
  • Winge, Ø. (1917) The chromosomes: their numbers and general importance. Comptes Rendus des Travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg, 13, 131-275.
    Doctoral thesis
    .
  • Winge, Ø. (1928) Textbook in Genetics (Danish title: Arvelighedslære paa eksperimentelt og cytologisk Grundlag). 2nd edn. 1937; 3rd end. 1945. København.
  • Winge Ø. (1931) X- and Y-linked inheritance in Melandrium. Hereditas, 15, 127-165.
  • Winge, Ø. (1935) On haplophase and diplophase of some Saccharomycetes. Comptes Rendus des Travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg. Série Physiologique, 21, 77-111.
  • Winge, Ø. (1950) Inheritance in dogs: with special reference to hunting breeds. Ithaca, New York. 153 p.

References

  1. ^
    PMID 765197
    .
  2. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Winge.
  3. PMID 11333213
    .
  4. S2CID 46507109
    .
  5. ^ Volume jubilaire en l’honneur du professeur Øjvind Winge pour son 70ième anniversaire. Comptes Rendus des Travaux du Laboratoire Carlsberg. Série Physiologique, 26 (1-25): 1-443. 1956.
  6. S2CID 34129060
    .
  7. PMID 13845218
    .
  8. PMID 32670340
    .
  9. S2CID 1584282
    .
  10. doi:10.1038/159668e0
    .
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