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Marcello Malpighi: Quick Facts

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Born March 10, 1628 • Italy
Died November 30, 1694 (aged 66) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study Bowman’s capsule • blood • capillary • circulation • histology • malpighian layer • malpighian tubule • pulmonary circulation • red blood cell • renal corpuscle

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Portrait of Marcello Malpighi, Italian scientist and physician, with long curly hair, mustache, and goatee, wearing a dark robe with a white collar.
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William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
August Krogh
August Krogh
Danish physiologist
Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
British biologist
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Ulisse Aldrovandi
Italian naturalist
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Aselli, detail of an engraving by Cesare Bassano, 1623
Gaspare Aselli
Italian physician
Oil painting by Jan Verkolje showing Antonie van Leeuwenhoek seated at a table with a globe, papers, inkstand, and a compass in hand, wearing a brown robe and white shirt.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Dutch scientist
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
James Watson, c. 1990
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Ralph M. Steinman.
Ralph M. Steinman
Canadian immunologist and cell biologist
Ōmura Satoshi
Ōmura Satoshi
Japanese microbiologist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
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Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn
American molecular biologist and biochemist

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