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De Motu Animalium by Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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Also Known As Giovanni Francesco Antonio Alonso
Born January 28, 1608 • Naples • Kingdom of Naples
Died December 31, 1679 (aged 71) • Rome • Italy
Subjects Of Study motion • muscle

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Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Sir Peter Mansfield
British physicist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
A.V. Hill, detail of a pencil drawing by F.W. Schmin, 1923
A.V. Hill
British physiologist and biophysicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Galvani, Luigi
Luigi Galvani
Italian physician and physicist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Helmont, Jan Baptista van
Jan Baptista van Helmont
Belgian scientist
Watson, James
James Watson
American geneticist and biophysicist
Crick, Francis
Francis Crick
British biophysicist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist
Thomas Young, engraving
Thomas Young
British physician and physicist
Rosalyn S. Yalow at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, Dec. 14, 1977.
Rosalyn S. Yalow
American medical physicist
Abu’l-Barakat al-Baghdadi
Arab physician and philosopher [1080?–1164/1165?]
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Sir Alan Hodgkin
British biophysicist
Maurice Wilkins with a model of a DNA molecule, 1962.
Maurice Wilkins
British biophysicist

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