Marcello Malpighi (1646-1694)
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Malpighi was born in 1628 in Crevalcore, Bologna, Italy, and he was baptized 10 March of that year. His parents were Maria Cremonini and Marcantonio Malpighi. He entered the University of Bologna [5] in Bologna in 1646, and his tutor Francesco Natali encouraged him to study medicine, which he began in 1649. While in medical school he was one of only a few students permitted to attend vivisections and dissections in the home of Bartolomeo Massari [6]. He graduated in 1653 as a doctor of medicine and philosophy, and three years later he became the lecturer in logic at the University of Bologna [5].
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Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) was an Italian scientist who made outstanding contributions in many areas, including the anatomical basis of respiration in amphibia, mammals, and insects and also in the very different fields of embryology and botany. He was one of the first biologists to make use of the newly invented microscope and is best known as the discoverer of the pulmonary capillaries and...
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