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Robert Remak

1815 - 1865

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Robert Remak (26 July 1815 – 29 August 1865) was an embryologist, physiologist and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia, who discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells. as well as several other key discoveries. According to historian Paul Weindling, Rudolf Virchow, one of the founders of modern cell theory, plagiarized Remak's notion that all cells come from pre-existing cells. Remak had concluded this after observing red blood cells from chicken embryos in various stages of division. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Remak is the 357th most popular physician (up from 369th in 2019), the 550th most popular biography from Poland (up from 613th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Polish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Robert Remak ranks 357 out of 726. Before him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat, William Cullen, Nikolai Korotkov, Alfonso López Trujillo, and Johann von Staupitz. After him are Carl Lange, Thomas Horsfield, Robert Darwin, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Petrus Camper, and Claus Schilling.

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Among people born in 1815, Robert Remak ranks 38. Before him are Ii Naosuke, Louise Rasmussen, Horace Wells, James Curtis Hepburn, Jean-Delphin Alard, and Eugène Marin Labiche. After him are Robert Volkmann, Ang Mey, George Averoff, Theophan the Recluse, Alexander von Keyserling, and Seru Epenisa Cakobau. Among people deceased in 1865, Robert Remak ranks 44. Before him are Sengge Rinchen, Andrés de Santa Cruz, Evangelos Zappas, Rafael Carrera, Achille Valenciennes, and Joseph Paxton. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Isabella Beeton, Adolph Kolping, Friedrich August Stüler, Princess Anna of Hesse and by Rhine, and Joseph Lebeau.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Robert Remak ranks 550 out of 1,694. Before him are Karol Lipiński (1790), Zawisza Czarny (1379), Ryszard Siwiec (1909), Ernst Kantorowicz (1895), Beata Tyszkiewicz (1938), and Jeremias Benjamin Richter (1762). After him are Krystyna Skarbek (1908), Andrzej Panufnik (1914), Bronisław Geremek (1932), Max Simon (1899), John Albert Vasa (1612), and Otto Lasch (1893).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Robert Remak ranks 12. Before him are Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), and Bronisława Dłuska (1865). After him are Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (1855), Hilary Koprowski (1916), Wilhelm Fliess (1858), Kazimierz Bein (1872), Zofia Zamenhof (1889), and Max Gerson (1881).

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