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Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731)
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Apr 08, 2013
Frederik Ruysch made anatomical drawings and collected and preserved human specimens, many of which were infants and fetuses, in the Netherlands…
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Ricardo Hector Asch (1947- )
By: Hilary Gilson
| Published: Jun 10, 2009
Ricardo Hector Asch was born 26 October 1947 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a lawyer and French professor, Bertha, and a doctor and professor of…
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Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731)
By: Britta Martinez
| Published: Apr 08, 2013
Frederik Ruysch made anatomical drawings and collected and preserved human specimens, many of which were infants and fetuses, in the Netherlands…
PeopleRuysch, Frederik, 1638-1731ObstetriciansMedical JurisprudenceEmbalming
Zhang Lizhu (1921- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Aug 16, 2011
Zhang Lizhu is a Chinese gynecologist and researcher. For most of her career, she worked in the Peking Medical College Third Hospital, renamed in…
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Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was born to the wealthy owner of a silk factory on 31 May 1857 in Desio, Italy. He was ordained to…
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Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Jun 10, 2010
Pope Pius XII was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome, Italy, to Virginia and Filippo Pacelli. Known for his oft-…
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Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 10, 2008
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes…
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Rudolf Carl Virchow (1821-1902)
By: Megan Kearl
| Published: Mar 17, 2012
Rudolf Carl Virchow lived in nineteenth century Prussia, now Germany, and proposed that omnis cellula e cellula, which translates to each cell comes…
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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948)
By: Mark A. Ulett
| Published: Jun 29, 2010
Known by many for his wide-reaching interests and keen thinking, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson was one of Britain's leading scientific academics in the…
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