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Born October 27, 1761 • Scotland
Died September 23, 1823 (aged 61) • England
Notable Works “Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body”
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Rokitansky, detail of an engraving
Karl, baron von Rokitansky
Austrian pathologist
Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Scottish geologist
George Smith
British publisher
Alexander Wilson, detail of an engraving by W.H. Lizars
Alexander Wilson
Scottish ornithologist
Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Scottish zoologist
John Adair
Scottish surveyor
Sir Charles Bell, detail of a portrait by John Stevens, oil on canvas, c. 1821; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Charles Bell
British anatomist
John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Antoine Lavoisier
Antoine Lavoisier
French chemist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Swedish botanist
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist