Who First Discovered Mitosis and When

Walter Flemming described chromosome behavior during animal cell division. Flemming was one of the first cytologists and the first to detail how chromosomes move during mitosis, or cell division.

When was mitosis invented?

In 1873, the German zoologist Otto Bütschli published data from observations on nematodes. A few years later, he discovered and described mitosis based on those observations. The term “mitosis”, coined by Walther Flemming in 1882, is derived from the Greek word μίτος (mitos, “warp thread”).

Who discovered meiosis first?

Meiosis was first observed in sea urchin eggs in 1876 by German biologist, Oscar Hertwig. A decade later, Belgian zoologist, Edouard Van Beneden, described a similar process in the eggs of the roundworm, Ascaris.