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Also Known As Giovanni Francesco Antonio Alonso
Born January 28, 1608 • Naples • Kingdom of Naples
Died December 31, 1679 (aged 71) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study motion • muscle

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A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
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Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Galvani, Luigi
Luigi Galvani
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Arsène d’Arsonval
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Helmholtz.
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German scientist and philosopher
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
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Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
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Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
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Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
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Sir Peter Mansfield
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