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Nature 399, 204 (20 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20312

100 and 50 years ago

A report by Prof. David Hansemann, of Berlin, on the brain of Hermann von Helmholtz, is referred to in the British Medical Journal. The great physicist died of apoplexy on September 8, 1894, at the age of seventy-three.