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Correspondence
Nature 411, 885 (21 June 2001) | doi:10.1038/35082239
Medical luminaries
Edgar Pick1
- Julius Friedrich Cohnheim–Minerva Centre of Phagocyte Research, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
May I add the names of more intellectual luminaries, whose careers were centred on Breslau/Wroclaw, to the list offered by Min-Liang Wong ("Bright light of learning snuffed out in Breslau", Nature 410, 865; 2001).Ferdinand Julius Cohn (1828–1898), the prominent botanist and microbiologist, father of bacterial taxonomy, was born in Breslau and became a professor at the university there.
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