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Ragnar Arthur Granit
Swedish physiologist
Du Bois-Reymond, engraving, c. 1900.
Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond
German physiologist
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Robert Remak
German scientist
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Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
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Joseph Erlanger
American physiologist
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Herbert Spencer Gasser
American physiologist
Wilhelm His, c. 1900
Wilhelm His
Swiss anatomist