Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)

Wilhelm Olbers Focke

German physician and botanist (1834–1922)

Wilhelm Olbers Focke was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization. Although Charles Darwin…