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Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters

1834–63

German anatomist and histologist. After early training in Bonn, was an assistant in Rudolf Virchow’s institute of pathology, Berlin, 1857. Habilitated at Bonn, 1858. Developed a technique to isolate cells later called neurons under the microscope.

Source

BLA.

Bibliography

BLA: Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Aerzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by A. Wernich et al. 6 vols. Vienna and Leipzig: Urban and Schwarzenberg. 1884–8.

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