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Born June 24, 1795 • Wittenberg • Germany
Died January 26, 1878 (aged 82) • Leipzig • Germany
Notable Works “De Tactu” • “Der Tastsinn und das Gemeingefühl”
Subjects Of Study Weber’s law • touch reception

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Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Mohl, lithograph after a drawing by J. Kull, c. 1850
Hugo von Mohl
German botanist
Franz Joseph Gall, engraving by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger after a portrait by Karl Heinrich Rahl, c. 1812
Franz Joseph Gall
German anatomist and physiologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Bichat, detail of an engraving
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
French anatomist and physiologist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Diogenes Of Apollonia
Greek philosopher
William Hewson
English physiologist
John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist

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