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Also Known As Cratevas
Flourished 100 BCE - 1 BCE
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
Leonhard Fuchs.
Leonhard Fuchs
German botanist and physician
Otto Brunfels
German botanist
Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock
Hieronymus Bock
German scientist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Ferid Murad
Ferid Murad
American pharmacologist
Louis Ignarro
American pharmacologist
Sir James Black
Scottish pharmacologist
Robert F. Furchgott
American pharmacologist
Alfred G. Gilman
American pharmacologist
Gertrude Elion, 1988.
Gertrude B. Elion
American scientist
Axelrod, Julius
Julius Axelrod
American biochemist
Otto Loewi
German-American pharmacologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist
Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
Gibson, William Hamilton
William Hamilton Gibson
American illustrator and author
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
American pharmacologist

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