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Born April 20, 1913 • Germany
Died November 5, 1976 (aged 63) • Ludwigsburg • Germany
Notable Works “Larvenformen der Dipteren”
Subjects Of Study phylogeny • taxonomy
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Félix Dujardin
French biologist
Latreille, detail of an engraving after a portrait, 1823
Pierre-André Latreille
French zoologist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Ferdinand Cohn
Ferdinand Cohn
German botanist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Mayr, Ernst
Ernst Mayr
American biologist
Richard B. Goldschmidt
German-born American zoologist
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Karl August Möbius
German zoologist
August Wilhelm Eichler
German botanist
Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist

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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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