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Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Karl Ernst von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
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Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
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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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
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Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
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Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
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Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
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Robert Remak
German embryologist and neurologist
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
British zoologist
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C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
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Joseph Needham
British biochemist

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