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Viktor Hensen
Viktor Hensen
German physiologist
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Timothy Parsons
Canadian biologist
Rachel Carson looks into a microscope in a laboratory setting, circa 1962.
Rachel Carson
American biologist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
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Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
Philip Henry Gosse, portrait miniature by W. Gosse, 1839; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Henry Gosse
British naturalist
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Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
C. Wyville Thomson, 1877.
Sir C. Wyville Thomson
Scottish naturalist
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Addison Emery Verrill
American zoologist
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Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
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Sir William Abbott Herdman
British oceanographer
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Edmund Newton Harvey
American zoologist
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Guillaume Rondelet
French naturalist

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