Gustav Alfred Senn (9 November 1875 in Basel, Switzerland – 10 July 1945 in Basel) was a Swiss botanist and historian of botany. He was a student of Georg Klebs and worked on the movement and morphological changes of chloroplasts. He also studied Theophrastus.

Selected works

The standard author abbreviation Senn is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

• Die Gestalts- und Lageveränderung der Pflanzen-Chromatophoren, Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1908.
• Die Entwicklung der biologischen Forschungsmethode in der Antike und ihre grundsätzlitche Förderung durch Theophrast von Eresos, Aarau: H. R. Sauerländer & Company, 1933. Series "Veröffentlichungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften", #8. OCLC 654748954.

References

• Obituary, d'Arcy W. Thompson, Nature 156 (8 September 1945), p. 289, doi:10.1038/156289a0.
• Obituary, F. E. Weiss, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 158, #1, pp. 70–71, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1947.tb00444.x.
• "Notes and Correspondence", George Sarton and Aubrey Diller, Isis 36, #2 (Jan. 1946), pp. 130–134, JSTOR 225877. (obituary)
• "Gustav Senn (1875–1945): The pioneer of chloroplast movement research", Hironao Kataoka, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 57 #1 (Jan. 2015), pp. 4–13, doi:10.1111/jipb.12311.