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Also Known As Gabriello Fallopio • Gabriello Fallopia
Born 1523 • Modena • Italy
Died October 9, 1562 (aged 39) • Padua • Italy
Subjects Of Study ear • fallopian tube • human reproductive system
George Washington Corner
American anatomist and embryologist
Magnus Gustaf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Morgagni, engraving by Giovanni Volpato
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Italian anatomist and pathologist
Fabricius ab Aquapendente, oil painting by an unknown artist
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
Italian surgeon
Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
Lorenzo Bellini, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
Lorenzo Bellini
Italian physician and anatomist
Giacomo Berengario da Carpi
Italian physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
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Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
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