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Born January 12, 1729 • Modena • Italy
Died 1799 (aged 69) • Pavia • Cisalpine Republic
Subjects Of Study regeneration • sexual reproduction

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Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italian-American neurologist
Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi
Italian physician and cytologist
Renato Dulbecco, 1966.
Renato Dulbecco
Italian-American virologist
Salvador E. Luria.
Salvador Luria
Italian-American biologist
Daniel Bovet.
Daniel Bovet
Italian pharmacologist
Jacob Moleschott
Dutch-Italian physiologist and philosopher
Mario R. Capecchi
American scientist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist

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