Rudolf Virchow was born Oct. 13, 1821 in Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia and died Sept. 5, 1902 in Berlin. He was a German pathologist, anthropologist, and statesman. In 1847 he cofounded the...
In 1838, Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden were enjoying after-dinner coffee and talking about their studies on cells. It has been suggested that when Schwann heard Schleiden describe plant...