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Born January 13, 1870 • Germantown • Pennsylvania
Died September 30, 1959 (aged 89) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study axon • mesoderm
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
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Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
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Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
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Charles Manning Child
American zoologist
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Victor Ernest Shelford
American zoologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
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Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
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Robert Remak
German embryologist and neurologist
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Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
Soviet biologist
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Sir James Gray
British zoologist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
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Russell H. Varian
American physicist
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Sigurd F. Varian
American engineer
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Wilbur Wright
American aviator

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