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Born April 21, 1849 • Germany
Died October 25, 1922 (aged 73) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study fertilization • ovum • sperm
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Beneden, Edouard van
Edouard van Beneden
Belgian embryologist and cytologist
Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Wilhelm Roux
German zoologist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Dame Anne McLaren
English geneticist
Edmund Beecher Wilson
Edmund Beecher Wilson
American biologist
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel
German embryologist
Driesch
Hans Adolf Eduard Driesch
German embryologist
Christian Konrad Sprengel
German botanist
Max Schultze
German zoologist
Strasburger, Eduard Adolf
Eduard Adolf Strasburger
German cytologist
Robert Remak
German scientist
Theodor Heinrich Boveri
German cytologist
Hans Spemann
German embryologist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss anatomist
Martin H. Rathke
German anatomist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Ian Wilmut
British biologist
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist