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Born May 23, 1734 • Germany
Died March 5, 1815 (aged 80) • Swabia • Germany
Subjects Of Study hypnosis

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Josef Breuer
Josef Breuer
Austrian physician
James Braid
British surgeon
Elliotson, detail of a lithograph
John Elliotson
British physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Robert Koch.
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Georg Ernst Stahl
German chemist and physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician
Günter Blobel
German-American scientist
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Alsatian-German theologian and physician
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
“The father of the Paralympic movement”
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon
Thomas C. Südhof
German-American neuroscientist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
Georges J.F. Köhler
German immunologist