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Marie-François-Xavier Bichat: Quick Facts

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Born November 11, 1771 or November 14, 1771 • France
Died July 22, 1802 • Lyon • France
Notable Works “Treatise on Membranes”
Subjects Of Study cell differentiation • tissue

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Bichat, detail of an engraving
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Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
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Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Franz Joseph Gall, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a portrait by Karl Heinrich Rahl, c. 1812
Franz Joseph Gall
German anatomist and physiologist
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Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
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Diogenes Of Apollonia
Greek philosopher
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William Hewson
English physiologist
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John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
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René Laënnec
French physician
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist

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