Runar Collander
{{Short description|Finnish botanist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Runar Collander
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|05|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vyborg, Finland
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|5|25|1894|05|1|df=y}}
| death_place = Helsinki, Finland
| nationality = Finnish
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| fields = Botany, Plant physiology
| workplaces = University of Helsinki
| alma_mater = University of Helsinki
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Paul Runar Collander (1 May 1894 Vyborg – 25 May 1973 Helsinki) was a Finnish botanist. He was an adjunct professor of plant physiology at the University of Helsinki from 1935 to 1939, and professor of botany from 1939 to 1961. He gained international acclaim for his research on the effect of molecular size and solubility ratios on the ability of substances to penetrate the cell membrane. He presented the "lipoid filter theory" of permeability and further developed it. Collander also wrote several works on the history of botany.
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Collander |first1=Runar |title=The History of Botany in Finland, 1828–1918 |series=The History of Learning and Science in Finland, 1828–1918 |publisher=Societas Scientiarum Fennica [Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters] |location=Helsinki |year=1965 |pages=1–159}}
References
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{{cite web |first1=Anto |last1=Leikola |title=Collander, Runar (1894–1973) |publisher=Suomen kansallisbiografia [The National Biography of Finland] |date=20 October 2002 |url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/kansallisbiografia/henkilo/7078 |accessdate=7 September 2020 |language=fi}}
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Category:20th-century Finnish botanists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Helsinki
Category:Scientists from Vyborg
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