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Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist
Jacques Loeb
Jacques Loeb
German biologist
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
Keith Roberts Porter
American biologist
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Cohnheim
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
German pathologist
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker.
Rudolf Albert von Kölliker
Swiss embryologist