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Born October 28, 1867 • Bad Kreuznach • Prussia
Died April 16, 1941 (aged 73) • Leipzig • Germany
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Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
German philosopher
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Robert Remak
German scientist
Hans Spemann
German embryologist
Oskar Hertwig
German biologist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss anatomist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Oken, Lorenz
Oken, Lorenz
German naturalist
Ludwig Klages
German psychologist and philosopher
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
British mathematician and philosopher
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Swedish philosopher
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist