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Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist
Hugh Esmor Huxley
British biologist
De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Italian physiologist and physicist
Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist

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