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Born April 15, 1794 • France
Died December 6, 1867 (aged 73) • France
Subjects Of Study vertebrate • brain
John O'Keefe
John O’Keefe
British-American neuroscientist
Moser, Edvard I.
Edvard I. Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Moser, May-Britt
May-Britt Moser
Norwegian neuroscientist
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess
Swiss physiologist
Roger Wolcott Sperry
American biologist
Lord Adrian. 1956.
Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian
British electrophysiologist
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Jules Hoffmann
Jules Hoffmann
French immunologist
Jean Dausset.
Jean Dausset
French hematologist and immunologist
François Jacob, 1965.
François Jacob
French biologist
Bert
Paul Bert
French physiologist and politician
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Lwoff, 1965
André Lwoff
French biologist
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
French physician
Henri Dutrochet
French physiologist

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