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Born May 27, 1818 • Tilburg • Netherlands
Died March 24, 1889 (aged 70) • Utrecht • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study astigmatism • disease • eye • hyperopia • myopia • pathology • physiology

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Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860
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Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
D. Carleton Gajdusek
American physician
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Werner Forssmann
German physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
Niels Ryberg Finsen.
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Danish physician
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Laveran
Alphonse Laveran
French physician and pathologist
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist