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Also Known As Volcher Koyter • Volcher Coyter
Born 1534 • Groningen • Netherlands
Died 1590?
Subjects Of Study bone • meningococcal meningitis
Ingenhousz, detail of an engraving
Jan Ingenhousz
Dutch scientist
Jacob Moleschott
Dutch-Italian physiologist and philosopher
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Dutch zoologist
Boerhaave, detail of a portrait by Cornelis Troost; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Herman Boerhaave
Dutch physician
Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860
Frans Cornelis Donders
Dutch ophthalmologist
Einthoven
Willem Einthoven
Dutch physiologist
Reinier de Graaf, engraving by an unknown artist
Reinier de Graaf
Dutch physician
Ferdinand von Hebra
Moravian physician
David Bruce
British physician
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
William B. Castle
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician