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Florence Rena Sabin had successful careers as both a researcher and public health reformer. When Johns Hopkins University Medical School opened,…
PeopleBiographypublic healthEducationAs one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, Warren Harmon Lewis made a number of contributions to…
PeopleBiographyEducationCarnegie Institution of WashingtonSamuel Randall Detwiler was an embryologist who studied neural development in embryos and vertebrate retinas. He discovered evidence for the…
PeopleTransplantationBiographyNeuronsSt. Augustine of Hippo, born Aurelius Augustinus to a respectable family in the year 354 CE, is now considered one of the foremost theologians in the…
PeoplereligionBiographyCatholicismFetusStanley Cohen is a biochemist who participated in the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF). He shared the 1986…
PeopleNerve Growth FactorBiographyEpidermal Growth FactorLazzaro Spallanzani's imaginative application of experimental methods, mastery of microscopy, and wide interests led him to significant contributions…
PeopleRegenerationBiographyWilhelm August Oscar Hertwig contributed to embryology through his studies of cells in development and his discovery that only one spermatozoon is…
PeopleFertilizationBiographySpermOvaWilhelm His, Sr. was born on 9 July 1831 in Basel, Switzerland, to Katharina La Roche and Eduard His. He began his medical studies at Basel in 1849…
PeopleBiographyHuman DevelopmentAs the third director of the Carnegie Institute of Washington s Department of Embryology, George Washington Corner made a number of contributions to…
PeopleBiographyCarnegie Institution of WashingtonEducationAlthough educated as a scientist who studied with both August Weismann and Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch was first employed as a…
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