biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1831–1904)
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| biography:
| Biologist, born in Basel, N Switzerland. He studied at Berlin and Würzburg, and became professor of anatomy at Basel (1857–72) and Leipzig (1872–1904). He invented the microtome (1865, a device to cut very thin slices for microscopic investigation), and discovered that each nerve fibre is linked to a single nerve cell. |
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