Rudolf Virchow
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Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the foun
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Memorial stone of Rudolf Virchow in his hometown Świdwin, now in Poland
Illustration of Virchow's cell theory
Ernst Haeckel
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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of ne
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…of what he described as "Nordic mysticism" regarding the Aryan race. As an anti-Darwinist, he called Charles Darwin an "ignoramus" and his own student Ernst Haeckel a "fool". He described the original specimen of Neanderthal man as nothing but that of a deformed human. Virchow was born in Schievelbein, in eastern…
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Ernst Haeckel, Christmas of 1860, at the age of 26.
Ernst Haeckel in later life
Sea anemones from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Art forms in Nature) of 1904