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Also Known As ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn Abū al-ʿAlāʾ ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Ḥaram al-Qurayshī ad-Dimashqī ibn an-Nafīs
Died 1288
Subjects Of Study pulmonary circulation
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Italian scientist
Michael Servetus
Michael Servetus
Spanish theologian
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Ibn Zuhr
Ibn Zuhr
Spanish Muslim physician
Ferdinand von Hebra
Moravian physician
William B. Castle
American physician
David Bruce
British physician
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
Armauer Hansen
Norwegian physician
Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
William James Mayo
American physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician