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Elizabeth Belmont Gasking
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LOCATION: Melbourne, Australia

BIOGRAPHY

Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia. Author of Investigations into Generation, 1651–1828.

Primary Contributions (1)
Lazzaro Spallanzani, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the collection of the University of Pavia, Italy.
Lazzaro Spallanzani was an Italian physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions and animal reproduction. His investigations into the development of microscopic life in nutrient culture solutions paved the way for the research of Louis Pasteur.…
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