Johannes Müller

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Also Known As	Johannes Peter Müller
Born	July 14, 1801 • Koblenz • Germany
Died	April 28, 1858 (aged 56) • Berlin • Germany
Awards And Honors	Copley Medal (1854)
Notable Works	“Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen für Vorlesungen” • “On the Nature and Structural Characteristics of Cancer, and of Those Morbid Growths Which May Be Confounded with It” • “Zur vergleichenden Physiologie des Gesichtssinnes…”
Subjects Of Study	Müllerian duct • nervous system • senses • taxonomy

Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

German anthropologist

Galen of Pergamum

Galen

Greek physician

Georges Cuvier

Georges Cuvier

French zoologist

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

French naturalist

Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger

Albrecht von Haller

Swiss biologist

David Hunter Hubel

American biologist

Elliott Coues

American ornithologist

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

British naturalist

Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858

Claude Bernard

French scientist

Ivan Pavlov

Ivan Pavlov

Russian physiologist

Thomas Hunt Morgan

Thomas Hunt Morgan

American biologist

Dana, James D.

James D. Dana

American geologist and mineralogist

Peter B. Medawar, 1960.

Sir Peter B. Medawar

British zoologist

Sir Charles Sherrington.

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington

British physiologist

Élie Metchnikoff.

Élie Metchnikoff

Russian-born biologist

John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Hunter

British surgeon

Lankester, Edwin Ray

Sir Edwin Ray Lankester

British zoologist

Lord Florey.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey

Australian pathologist

Abraham Trembley

Swiss naturalist

Oskar Minkowski

German physiologist

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.

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