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Born March 25, 1848 • Cleveland • Ohio
Died November 12, 1908 (aged 60) • Maryland
Subjects Of Study crustacean • mollusk • oyster • tunicate • anatomy • embryo

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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Belon, detail from an engraving
Pierre Belon
French naturalist
E.O. Wilson
E.O. Wilson
American biologist
Charles Henry Turner.
Charles Henry Turner
American scientist
Cornelia Maria Clapp
American zoologist
Charles Benedict Davenport
American zoologist
Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Augustus A. Gould
American naturalist
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Lancelot Thomas Hogben
English scientist
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Élie Metchnikoff.
Élie Metchnikoff
Russian-born biologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Sir John Graham Kerr
British biologist
Walther Flemming
German biologist

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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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