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Born August 31, 1884 • Ghent • Belgium
Died March 22, 1956 (aged 71) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
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Rudolf Virchow
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Silliman, Benjamin
Benjamin Silliman
American geologist and chemist [1779-1864]
John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
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Nuttall, George Henry Falkiner
George Henry Falkiner Nuttall
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
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Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
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Franz Xaver von Zach
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Friedrich Meinecke
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Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore
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Nathanael Pringsheim.
Nathanael Pringsheim
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Ramón Menéndez Pidal
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