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Facts

Born July 9, 1831 • Basel • Switzerland
Died May 1, 1904 (aged 72) • Leipzig • Germany
Inventions microtome
Notable Works “Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen”
Subjects Of Study axon • histogenesis • neuron • neuron theory

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Wilhelm His, c. 1900
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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
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Robert Remak
German embryologist and neurologist
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Auguste-Henri Forel
Swiss psychiatrist
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Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
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George Washington Corner
American anatomist and embryologist
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Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
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Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
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Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
German engineer
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Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist

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