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Born July 9, 1831 • Basel • Switzerland
Died May 1, 1904 (aged 72) • Leipzig • Germany
Inventions microtome
Notable Works “Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen”
Subjects Of Study axon • histogenesis • neuron • neuron theory

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Rudolf Jaenisch
German biologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Robert Remak
German scientist
Auguste-Henri Forel
Swiss psychiatrist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
George Washington Corner
American anatomist and embryologist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Werner von Siemens, drawing by Ismael Gentz, 1887
Werner von Siemens
German electrical engineer
Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
German chemist
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
French-German engineer
Heinrich Rohrer
Swiss physicist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin
Swiss physician and botanist

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