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Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
American scientist
Julian Huxley
Sir Julian Huxley
British biologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
Sir Gavin de Beer
British zoologist
Purkinje, Jan Evangelista
Jan Evangelista Purkinje
Czech physiologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Lankester, Edwin Ray
Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
British zoologist
Robert Remak
German scientist
Francis Maitland Balfour
Francis Maitland Balfour
British zoologist
C.H. Waddington
British embryologist
Joseph Needham
British biochemist
Steen Willadsen
Danish embryologist

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