Paolo Enriques

Paolo Enriques (17 August 1878, Leghorn – 26 December 1932, Rome) was an Italian zoologist.

Paolo Enriques taught Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Sassari (1917 to 1921), then in 1922 he became Professor of Zoology in the University of Padua University, and Director of the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. He was primarily interested in comparative cytology, physiology and genetics.He wrote “Teoria cellulare” or, in English Cellular Theory (1911), “Eredita dell’uomo” or Inheritance in Man (1924), and “Le leggi di Mendel e i cromosomi” or Mendel’s Laws and Chromosomes (1932). He died in a car accident in Rome.