Gustav Woldemar Focke

He studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg, receiving his doctorate in 1833.

Following graduation, he was engaged in scientific research during an extended trip to various locations — in Berlin, he was greatly influenced by the microscopic investigations being done by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

In 1869 he was named chairman of the Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen.

[2] In 1844 he described the water flea Leptodora kindtii, a species that he named in honor of pharmacist Georg Christian Kindt (1793–1869).

[3] The genus Fockea (family Apocynaceae) was named after him by Stephan Endlicher.