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Born January 13, 1870 • Germantown • Pennsylvania
Died September 30, 1959 (aged 89) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study axon • mesoderm
Bill Bowerman
American entrepreneur
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
Charles Manning Child
American zoologist
Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
Victor Ernest Shelford
American zoologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Robert Remak
German scientist
Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov
Soviet biologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Sir James Gray
British zoologist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Sigurd F. Varian
American engineer
Russell H. Varian
American physicist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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