Matthew Baillie: Quick Facts


Facts

Born October 27, 1761 • Scotland
Died September 23, 1823 (aged 61) • England
Notable Works “Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body”

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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Rokitansky, detail of an engraving
Karl, baron von Rokitansky
Austrian pathologist
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Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
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George Smith
British publisher
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
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Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish zoologist
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John Adair
Scottish surveyor
Sir Charles Bell, detail of a portrait by John Stevens, oil on canvas, c. 1821; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Charles Bell
British anatomist
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John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
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Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
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Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Portrait of French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, shown in formal 18th-century attire with a white wig and ruffled cravat, looking slightly to his left.
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman