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Born December 7, 1810 • Neuss • Prussia
Died January 11, 1882 (aged 71) • Cologne • Germany
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1845)
Subjects Of Study animal • cell theory

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Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Carl F.W. Ludwig, detail of an engraving
Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
Sir Bernard Katz
British physiologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Spanish histologist
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Burnet, Sir Macfarlane
Sir Macfarlane Burnet
Australian physician
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist

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