Lazzaro Spallanzani
(1729-1799)
Italian priest, biologist and physiologist
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Lazzaro Spallanzani (12 January 1729 – 11 February 1799) was an Italian Catholic priest (for which he was nicknamed Abbé Spallanzani), biologist and physiologist who made important contributions to the experimental study of bodily functions, animal reproduction, and animal echolocation. His research on biogenesis paved the way for the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, a prevailing idea at the time that organisms develop from inanimate matters, though the final death blow to the idea was dealt by French scientist Louis Pasteur a century later.
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10 January 1729 Scandiano, Italy
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| Died |
12 February 1799 (aged 70) Pavia, Italy
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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