Dr. Paul Kammerer

Dr. Paul Kammerer was born in Vienna in 1880. While on a lecture circuit in the United States and England, he became a sensation among the science community for his research on Lamarckian inheritance, being hailed by the New York Times as the next Darwin. He committed suicide in 1926 after fellow researchers accused him of forging his results.

Dr. Paul Kammerer was born in Vienna in 1880. While on a lecture circuit in the United States and England, he became a sensation among the science community for his research on Lamarckian inheritance, being hailed by the New York Times as the next Darwin. He committed suicide in 1926 after fellow researchers accused him of forging his results. See less