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Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky
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Born November 19, 1840 • Russia
Died November 22, 1901 (aged 61) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Subjects Of Study biological development • embryo
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker.
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Swiss embryologist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Italian scientist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Hwang Woo Suk and Gerald Schatten
Hwang Woo-Suk
South Korean scientist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist