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Born June 9, 1850 • Jena • Germany
Died September 15, 1924 (aged 74) • Halle • Germany
Subjects Of Study biological development • fertilization • morphogenesis
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Oskar Hertwig
German biologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
British zoologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish zoologist
Aleksandr Onufriyevich Kovalevsky
Russian embryologist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Richard B. Goldschmidt
German-born American zoologist

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