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Born February 2, 1809 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died February 4, 1884 (aged 75) • Saint Louis • Missouri
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Gray, Asa
Asa Gray
American botanist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
Engler
Adolf Engler
German botanist
Leonhard Fuchs.
Leonhard Fuchs
German botanist and physician
John Bachman
American naturalist and minister
Dillenius, detail from an engraving by James Heath after an original portrait by an unknown artist
Johann Jakob Dillenius
German botanist
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Curt Sachs
German musicologist
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Katherine Esau
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Otto Loewi
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