Johannes Müller: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Johannes Peter Müller
Born July 14, 1801 • Koblenz • Germany
Died April 28, 1858 (aged 56) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1854)
Notable Works “Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen für Vorlesungen” • “On the Nature and Structural Characteristics of Cancer, and of Those Morbid Growths Which May Be Confounded with It” • “Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes…”
Subjects Of Study Müllerian duct • nervous system • senses • taxonomy

Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
David Starr Jordan
David Starr Jordan
American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist
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David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
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Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Louis Agassiz
Louis Agassiz
Swiss-born American naturalist, geologist, and teacher
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
James D. Dana
James D. Dana
American geologist and mineralogist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Élie Metchnikoff
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist