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Also Known As Gabriello Fallopio • Gabriello Fallopia
Born 1523 • Modena • Italy
Died October 9, 1562 (aged 39) • Padua • Italy
Subjects Of Study ear • fallopian tube • human reproductive system
George Washington Corner
American anatomist and embryologist
Magnus Gustaf Retzius
Swedish anatomist and anthropologist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
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Sarpi, detail of a portrait (the black spot on his face covers the scar from an unsuccessful attempt on his life in 1607); in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Paolo Sarpi
Italian theologian
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
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Morgagni, engraving by Giovanni Volpato
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
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Fabricius ab Aquapendente, oil painting by an unknown artist
Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente
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Mondino De’ Luzzi
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Lorenzo Bellini, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
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Giacomo Berengario da Carpi
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William Harvey
William Harvey
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Emanuel Swedenborg
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Galen of Pergamum
Galen
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Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
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Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
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