1715) 1802 Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b.

He was an early pioneer of the scientific method.

Publication history Origins The English anatomist Henry Gray was born in 1827.

Eponym Meissner's corpuscles were discovered by the anatomist Georg Meissner (1829 1905).

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.

Gustaf Johan Billberg (14 June 1772, Karlskrona 26 November 1844, Stockholm) was a Swedish botanist, zoologist and anatomist, although professionally and by training he was a lawyer and used science and biology as a hobby.

History Although the prostate was first described by Venetian anatomist Niccolò Massa in 1536, and illustrated by Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius in 1538, prostate cancer was not identified until 1853.

1577) July 13 Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b.

Leonardo was named after the Italian polymath, painter, engineer, inventor, writer, anatomist, and sculptor, Leonardo da Vinci.

The first accurate description of orangutans was given by Dutch anatomist Petrus Camper, who observed the animals and dissected some specimens.

In 1933, American anatomist Harold Coolidge offered a more detailed description of the bonobo, and elevated it to species status.

Marcello Malpighi (March 10, 1628 November 29, 1694) was an Italian physician and biologist regarded as the father of microscopical anatomy and histology.

One of the first and most important naturalists to be convinced by Origin of the reality of evolution was the British anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley.

Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold (February 16, 1804 April 7, 1885) was a German physiologist and zoologist.

A radical British school of comparative anatomy that included the anatomist Robert Edmond Grant was closely in touch with Lamarck's French school of Transformationism .

Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.

Carl or Karl Wernicke ( or ) (15 May 1848 15 June 1905) was a German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.

A dissection was conducted, and published by French anatomist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1816, and republished by French naturalist Georges Cuvier in the Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in 1817.

He was one of two children born to Gustav Born, an anatomist and embryologist, who was a professor of embryology at the University of Breslau, and his wife Margarethe (Gretchen) née Kauffmann, from a Silesian family of industrialists.

Taxonomy and phylogeny German anatomist Ernst Schwarz is credited with having discovered the bonobo in 1928, based on his analysis of a skull in the Tervuren museum in Belgium that previously had been thought to have belonged to a juvenile chimpanzee.

Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus , an extinct hominid closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the province Northwest.

One of the French scientists who influenced Grant was the anatomist Étienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, whose ideas on the unity of various animal body plans and the homology of certain anatomical structures would be widely influential and lead to intense debate with his colleague Georges Cuvier.