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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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Osborne Overton Heard (1890-1983)
By: Karen Wellner
| Published: Jun 28, 2010
Osborne O. Heard was a noted Carnegie embryological model maker for the Department of Embryology at The Carnegie Institute of Washington (CIW),…
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Lennart Nilsson (1922- )
By: Olivia Conley
| Published: Jun 24, 2010
Lennart Nilsson is a world-renowned photojournalist recognized for his exploratory images of the inside of the human body. Throughout his career,…
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Michael D. West (1953- )
By: Lijing Jiang
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus…
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Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren (1927-2007)
By: Aroob Khokhar
| Published: Jun 23, 2010
Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren was a developmental biologist known for her work with embryology in the twentieth century. McLaren was the first…
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Pope Gregory XIV (1535-1591)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
Pope Gregory XIV, born Nicolo Sfondrati, reversed the bull of Pope Sixtus V, Effraenatum, under which an abortion at any time of gestation can be…
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
Alan Mathison Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who lived in the early twentieth century. Among important contributions in…
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John von Neumann (1903-1957)
By: Julia Damerow
| Published: Jun 22, 2010
John von Neumann was a Hungarian mathematician who made important contributions to mathematics, physics, computer science, and the area of artificial…
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Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912)
By: Kaitlin Smith
| Published: Jun 20, 2010
Multiple theories about what determines sex were tested at the turn of the twentieth century. By experimenting on germ cells, cytologist Nettie Maria…
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
By: Angel Lopez
| Published: Jun 18, 2010
Renowned physician and scientist William Harvey is best known for his accurate description of how blood circulates through the body. While his…
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