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Born February 2, 1809 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died February 4, 1884 (aged 75) • St. Louis • Missouri
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Günter Blobel
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Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
“Father of American Botany”
Asa Gray
American botanist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
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Nicholas Of Cusa
cardinal, scientist, scholar, and philosopher
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Leonhard Fuchs.
Leonhard Fuchs
German botanist and physician
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John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
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Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
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Katherine Esau
American botanist
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Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist

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