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Jul 6, 2020 · Rudolf von Kölliker (1817-1902) On July 6, 1817 , Swiss anatomist and physiologist Rudolf Albert von Kölliker was born. He was one of the founders of embryology. His thorough microscopic work on tissues enabled him to be among the first to identify their structure. He showed that they were made up of cells, that did not freely come into being ...
Mar 19, 2024 · Died: Nov. 2, 1905, Würzburg, Ger. (aged 88) Awards And Honors: Copley Medal (1897) Subjects Of Study: cell. tissue. Rudolf Albert von Kölliker (born July 6, 1817, Zürich, Switz.—died Nov. 2, 1905, Würzburg, Ger.) was a Swiss embryologist and histologist, one of the first to interpret tissue structure in terms of cellular elements.
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5 Jul 1817. Zürich, Bezirk Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. Death. 2 Nov 1905 (aged 88) Würzburg, Stadtkreis Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. Burial. Hauptfriedhof Würzburg. Würzburg, Stadtkreis Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany Add to Map. Memorial ID. 182635846. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 1. Flowers 5. Memorials. Region. Europe. Germany.
The venerable scientist died on November 3, of pneumonia, after an illness of thirty-six hours. The name of Kölliker has been familiar to all histologists and anatomists for nearly half a century, for there is scarcely any department of histology to which he did not contribute largely by his original work.
The Discovery and Naming of the Neuron. ... his presentation in Germany convinced the extremely influential Swiss histologist Rudolf Albert von Kölliker to abandon any notion of the reticulum.
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The authorities on retinal structure were Kölliker and his collaborator Heinrich Müller. The figure Helmholtz used to illustrate retinal structure in the first volume of his Handbuch was from Kölliker (1854), but he changed it in the second edition of 1896 to that by Schultze, together with Schultze’s (1866) diagram of the single rod and ...
