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Born April 7, 1891 • Paris • France
Died March 17, 1957 (aged 65) • Switzerland
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt
Swiss historian
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Paul Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist
Johannes von Müller
Swiss historian
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist
J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi
Swiss economist
Werner Arber
Swiss microbiologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
Tadeus Reichstein
Swiss chemist
Kocher, c. 1900
Emil Theodor Kocher
Swiss surgeon
Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné
Swiss minister
Otto Henne am Rhyn
Swiss historian
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
William James Mayo
American physician