Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (or 13 October 1821 – 5 September 1902) was a German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and politician. He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine". He received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1892. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and was elected to the Prussian Academy of Sciences, but he declined to be ennobled as "von Virchow".
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13 October 1821 Schivelbein (Pomerania)
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5 September 1902 (aged 80) Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
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