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Also Known As Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart
Born October 7, 1822 • Helmstedt • Germany
Died February 6, 1898 (aged 75) • Leipzig • Germany
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Dana, James D.
James D. Dana
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Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Libbie Henrietta Hyman
American zoologist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
C.P.E. Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
German composer
Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist
Richard B. Goldschmidt
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the Mozart family; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leopold Mozart
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Willi Hennig
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Karl August Möbius
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Katherine Esau
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