This photo of Linus Pauling in his office in 1979 is presented courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. Pauling started out teaching at Cal Tech. He ended his career at Stanford. Pauling promoted the use of vitamin C.
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Shown here is Francis Crick. Watson & Crick received the Nobel prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. Crick is still alive.
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This is a portrait of Charles Darwin after he became famous. Darwin was so deluged with criticism that it made him famous. The same was true of Galelio.
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This is Rene Descartes. He was born in 1596 and died in 1650. Although he was most famous for inventing Cartesian coordinates, he wrote a famous book about scinece. This book included speculations about the brain.
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This is Dr. Gall of 19th century France. Gall, usually regarded as a quack, advocated localization of function in the brain. He was right that functions are localized in the brain, but this has nothing to do with bumps on the head. Phrenology was a bogus science.
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This photo shows Alfred Nobel of Sweden. The Noble Prize was named after Noble, who set up the foundation to award the prize and funded it. Nobel himself was a rich inventor.
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This is Walter Cannon, a brilliant Harvard scientist. Unfortunately, Cannon is deceased. Cannon was a physiologist.
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This is the brilliant scientist Paul Ehrlich. He was born in 1855 and died in 1915. Ehrlich's reagent is named after him.
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Geminus published a book on anatomy. This illustration is presented courtesy of the National Library of Medicine. European scientists dominated early medicine. This book was published in 1545.
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Soemmerring published a book on anatomy in 1799. This illustration is presented courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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