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Born February 10, 1835 • Schleswig • Germany
Died April 5, 1924 (aged 89) • Kiel • Germany
Subjects Of Study plankton
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Julius von Sachs
German botanist
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs
German-British biochemist
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
German geneticist
Theodor Schwann
Theodor Schwann
German physiologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Wilhelm Wundt
Wilhelm Wundt
German physiologist and psychologist
Otto Warburg, c. 1931.
Otto Warburg
German biochemist
Carl F.W. Ludwig, detail of an engraving
Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
Neher, Erwin
Erwin Neher
German physicist
Bert Sakmann
German scientist

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