ENRIQUES, PAOLO

ENRIQUES, PAOLO (1878–1932), Italian zoologist. Born at Leghorn, he became director of the Institute of Zoology at Padua in 1921 and remained there until his death. His zoological studies dealt with comparative physiology and protozoology. Among works of wider scope were his La teoria cellulare (1911), in which he attempted a synthesis of modern biological problems; Riproduzione nei protozoi (1924); and a series of monographs on genetics and evolution in which Enriques attempted to reconcile Mendelian heredity with the Darwinian theory of evolution. (Mordecai L. Gabriel)