Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky was a Russian embryologist, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of St Petersburg.
Occupation
zoologist, embryologist, academic, university teacher
Citizenship
Russian Empire, Russia
Born
November 7, 1840, November 19, 1840, 1840, November 7, 1840
Died
November 9, 1901, November 22, 1901, 1901, November 9, 1901
Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky (, 7 November 1840 in Vorkovo, Dvinsky Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire – 1901, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) was an Imperial Russian embryologist, who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at the University of St Petersburg.
He was the brother of the paleontologist Vladimir Kovalevsky, and the brother-in-law of the mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya.
Discoveries
Kowalevsky's family belonged to Ukrainian nobility.
He showed that all animals go through a period of gastrulation.
