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Swammerdam

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Swam·mer·dam  (svämr-däm), Jan 1637-1680.
Dutch naturalist known for his pioneering microscopic research. He was the first to describe red blood cells (1658).
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Noun1.Swammerdam - Dutch naturalist and microscopist who proposed a classification of insects and who was among the first to recognize cells in animals and was the first to see red blood cells (1637-1680)
Jan Swammerdam
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The Dutch naturalist Swammerdam (1637-80) was the first to establish that the bee upon whom everything depends is the mother or queen bee, and his work was not published until 1752.
Virgil & the Vigil: the bees are back in the Exsultet by Ferrone, Rita / Commonweal
Her kitchen filled with cones of paper sheltering cocoons and caterpillars, she studied the work of Dutch biologist Jan Swammerdam, who used microscopes to reveal nervous, reproductive, and digestive systems in insects.
A study of metamorphosis: more than 300 years ago, Maria Sibylla ... by Reidell, Heidi / Americas (English Edition)
In the mid-1660s, Jan Swammerdam, Johannes van Horne, and Niels Stensen independently arrived at this hypothesis, but failed to publish their work immediately.
The Legacy of Reinier De Graaf by Jay, Venita / Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
 
 
 
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