Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (January 28, 1755 –March 2, 1830) is a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor.

Sömmerring discovers the macula in the retina of the human eye.

His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists.

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