biography
pronunciation:
[shvahn]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1810–82)
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| biography:
| Physiologist, born in Neuss, W Germany. He studied medicine at Berlin University, and became professor at Louvain (1838) and Liège (1848). He discovered the enzyme pepsin, investigated muscle contraction, demonstrated the role of micro-organisms in putrefaction, and extended the cell theory (previously applied to plants) to animal tissues, thus founding modern histology. |
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