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Leonhart Fuchs, sometimes spelled Leonhard Fuchs and cited in Latin as Leonhartus Fuchsius, was a German physician and botanist. His chief notability is as the author of a large book about plants and their uses as medicines, a herbal, which was first published in 1542 in Latin. It has about 500 accurate and detailed drawings of plants, which were printed from woodcuts. The drawings are the book's…
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science · German physician and botanist (1501–1566) · physician · botanist · pteridologist · university teacher · also Leonhart Fuchs, Leonhard Fuchs, L. Fuchs, Fuchs
Born 17 January 1501 · Died 10 May 1566 · Q60756
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s books on the anatomy of the eye and its diseases were among the standard references on this subject during this period. Together with Joachim Camerarius and Hieronymus Gemusaeus, he published a complete edited edition of the works of Galen, which was printed by Andreas Cratander in 1538. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes De historia is Fuchs
Career landmark: professor (1535).
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“s books on the anatomy of the eye and its diseases were among the standard references on this subject during this period. Together with Joachim Camerarius and Hieronymus Gemusaeus, he published a complete edited edition of the works of Galen, which was printed by Andreas Cratander in 1538. De Historia Stirpium Commentarii Insignes De historia is Fuchs”
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Published “Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3” in Nature — cited 15,725 times.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Leonhart Fuchs: Ein Kräuterbuch aus dem 16. Jahrhundert als Inspirationsquelle
Published “Cancer statistics, 2022” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 13,201 times.
Published “Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants” in The Lancet — cited 3,203 times.
Published “Cancer Statistics, 2021” in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — cited 12,210 times.
Augsburger Allgemeine: Wemding: Beim Frühjahrsempfang wird Leonhart Fuchs lebendig
Deutschlandfunk: Das "New Kreüterbuch" des Botanikers Leonhart Fuchs
Published “Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger <sup>*</sup>” in The Astrophysical Journal Letters — cited 3,686 times.
Published “Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults” in The Lancet — cited 5,602 times.
Published “The <i>Gaia</i> mission” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 6,442 times.
Published “Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the Body” in PLOS Biology — cited 3,973 times.
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Published “A Mammalian microRNA Expression Atlas Based on Small RNA Library Sequencing” in Cell — cited 3,189 times.
Published “SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 5,960 times.
Published “Use of Chemotherapy plus a Monoclonal Antibody against HER2 for Metastatic Breast Cancer That Overexpresses HER2” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 9,361 times.
In the Botanischer Garten der Universität Tübingen
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Was given the name of fuchsine in France by its original manufacturer Renard frères et Franc because its color was similar to color of flowers of certain Fuchsia species, as well as the fact that Renard in French and Fuc
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Died 1566-05-10.
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Career landmark: professor (1535).
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Studied at University of Ingolstadt (1521–1524).
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Studied at University of Ingolstadt (1519–1521).
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Studied at University of Erfurt (1515–1516).
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Born 1501-01-17.
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