Emmy stone (* 1879 in Duesseldorf; "† 1954 in were a German Botanikerin and Genetikerin.

After training at the horticulture school in Berlin Marienfelde it studied 1913 in Jena and with Ernst Stahl was attained a doctorate. Already during the First World War she came to Erwin Baur, which held to the first chair for genetics in Germany. She was together with Elizabeth ski man and Luise of Graevenitz (*1877) its female assistant.

Emmy stone was of 1923-1939 Baurs woman employee at the institute for emperor William for biology in Berlin. With its work "“it reported radium jets on Antirrhinum"” for the first time 1921 on a conference that ionizing radiation has a mutagene effect on organisms.

Later Hermann Joseph Muller the same effect at Drosophila discovered six years - he received the Nobelpreis in physiology or medicine for his achievement.

Starting from 1940 Emmy stone worked at Fritz von Wettstein over hormonale influence between grafting rice and document with radium Mutanten and pulled 1948 with first after Hechingen, later to shifted Institut, where she worked up to her death.

Emmy stone belongs together with Paula Hertwig (1889-1983) and Elizabeth ski man (1881-1972) to biolog inside, whom large earnings/services did not only acquire themselves around the genetics, her stand out also as personalities, that were in the "“first hour"” of this new science of the transmission thereby.

Writings

• 1922 - Over the influence of radium irradiation on Antirrhinum. Zs. F. ind. Abst. And Leaving teachings 29, 1-15.
• 1926 - Investigations on the Radiomorphosen of Antirrhinum. Zs. F. ind. Abst. And Leaving teachings 43, 1-87.
• 1926 - Further analyses of the group of A of the hereditary factors with Antirrhinum, changed by radium irradiation. Zs. F. ind. Abst. And Leaving teachings 69, 303-326.
• 1930 - Further reports on the fabric degenerations in the Antirrhinum (Phytocarcinome), induced by radium irradiation, and their hereditary behavior. Biol. Zbl. 50:129 - 155

Sources

• Dyke man Ute (1999): Biologist under Hitler. Fischer paperback.
• Ilse Jahn; Hrsg. (2000): History of biology. Spectrum
• Werner Plarre (1990): To the history of the Vererbungsforscung in Berlin. In: Schnarrenberger, Claus and Hildemar Scholz: History of the Botanik in Berlin.

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