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Born July 26, 1815 • Poznań • Prussia
Died August 29, 1865 (aged 50) • Bavaria
Subjects Of Study axon • disease • ectoderm • endoderm • ganglion • heart • mesoderm • nervous system • therapeutics
Duchenne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand
Duchenne de Boulogne
French neurologist
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
French neurologist
John Hughlings Jackson, oil painting by Lance Calkin; in the London Hospital Medical College
John Hughlings Jackson
British physician
Werner Forssmann
German physician
Carl Wernicke
German neurologist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss anatomist
René Laënnec
French physician
D. Carleton Gajdusek
American physician
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Vladimir Bekhterev
Russian psychiatrist
William Stokes
Irish physician
George Redmayne Murray
British physician
Sir James Mackenzie
Scottish physician
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
French physician
Sir Dominic John Corrigan, Baronet
Irish physician
James Bryan Herrick
American physician
Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Flint, Austin
Austin Flint
American physician
Asclepiades Of Bithynia
Greek physician