Wilhelm Peters
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He was assistant to the anatomist Johannes Peter Müller and later became curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. Encouraged by Müller and the explorer Alexander von Humboldt, Peters travelled to Mozambique via Angola in September 1842, exploring the coastal region and the Zambesi River. He returned to Berlin with an enormous collection of natural history specimens, which he then described in ''Naturwissenschaftliche Reise nach Mossambique... in den Jahren 1842 bis 1848 ausgeführt'' (1852–1882). The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetological collection to a size comparable to those of Paris and London. Herpetology was Peters' main interest, and he described 122 new genera and 649 species from around the world. Peters also described at least one new fish species, the piranha ''Serrasalmus irritans'', Peters 1877, based on a specimen reported as from San Fernando de Apure, Venezuela. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Dieter H. W. Peters, Pavel VarginGet access
Published in Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography (2015)
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5Comparing the CarbonTracker and TM5-4DVar data assimilation systems for CO 2 surface flux inversionsby A. Babenhauserheide, S. Basu, S. Houweling, W. Peters, A. ButzGet access
Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2015)
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8by G. R. van der Werf, W. Peters, T. T. van Leeuwen, L. GiglioGet access
Published in Climate of the Past (2013)
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9by G. R. van der Werf, W. Peters, T. T. van Leeuwen, L. GiglioGet access
Published in Climate of the Past (2013)
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10by D. H. W. Peters, P. Vargin, A. Gabriel, N. Tsvetkova, V. YushkovGet access
Published in Annales Geophysicae (2010)
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12by A. Gabriel, H. Körnich, S. Lossow, D. H. W. Peters, J. Urban, D. MurtaghGet access
Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2011)
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13by Prussia, Gregory AndrewContributors: “...Chairperson, Graduate Committee: John W. Peters...”
Published 2018
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