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Born November 14, 1739 • Hexham • England
Died May 1, 1774 (aged 34) • London • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1769)
Subjects Of Study coagulation • fibrinogen • lymphatic system • red blood cell
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 Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
Sir William Maddock Bayliss
British physiologist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Andrew Fielding Huxley
Sir Andrew Fielding Huxley
British physiologist
Sir Henry Dale, 1956.
Sir Henry Dale
British physiologist
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.
Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer
British physiologist and inventor
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Weber, Ernst Heinrich
Ernst Heinrich Weber
German physiologist
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Franz Joseph Gall, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a portrait by Karl Heinrich Rahl, c. 1812
Franz Joseph Gall
German anatomist and physiologist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Edward Adelbert Doisy
American biochemist

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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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