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Wilhelm His Sr.

1831 - 1904

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Wilhelm His Sr. (9 July 1831 – 1 May 1904) was a Swiss anatomist and professor who invented the microtome. By treating animal tissue with acids and salts to harden it and then slicing it very thinly with the microtome, scientists were able to further study the organization and function of tissues and cells under a microscope. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm His Sr. is the 483rd most popular physician (up from 523rd in 2019), the 382nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swiss Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Wilhelm His Sr. ranks 483 out of 726. Before him are Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard, Friedrich von Huene, and Ernest Starling. After him are Kyusaku Ogino, Gustav Fischer, James Young Simpson, Rutherford Alcock, Richard Bright, and Maryna Poroshenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Wilhelm His Sr. ranks 72. Before him are Alexandre Falguière, Subh-i-Azal, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Jovan Ristić, and Richard Norman Shaw. After him are Alexander, Prince of Lippe, Jacob W. Davis, Salomon Jadassohn, Georg Sauerwein, Arsenio Martínez Campos, and Gaston, Marquis de Galliffet. Among people deceased in 1904, Wilhelm His Sr. ranks 63. Before him are Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Korla Awgust Kocor, Samuel Smiles, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Edwin Arnold, and Émile Duclaux. After him are Alexander William Williamson, Sumner Paine, Leslie Stephen, James Longstreet, Georg Sauerwein, and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Wilhelm His Sr. ranks 382 out of 1,015. Before him are Fritz Platten (1883), Anton Allemann (1936), Pirmin Zurbriggen (1963), James Pradier (1790), Oliver Neuville (1973), and Edgar Schein (1928). After him are Tariq Ramadan (1962), Alois Estermann (1954), Erhard Loretan (1959), Werner Bischof (1916), Conrad Grebel (1498), and Adolf Ogi (1942).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Switzerland

Among physicians born in Switzerland, Wilhelm His Sr. ranks 14. Before him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel (1944), Albrecht von Haller (1708), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672), Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867), and Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1777). After him are Thomas Erastus (1524), Paolo Macchiarini (1958), Adolf Meyer (1866), and Daniel Mojon (1963).

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