https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Alexander_James_Rothney
English entomologist who collected ants and wasps extensively in India an Australia while also working in the stationery business and promoted Rugby in Calcutta. Was involved in the making of the Calcutta Cup.
https://www.imaginate.uk.com/portfolio/2017/4/13/the-historic-calcutta-cup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Sukhov
Soviet herpetologist who died in the Leningrad siege
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_S%C3%A9bastien_Tredern_de_L%C3%A9z%C3%A9rec
Forgotten pioneer of embryology
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“Twin-photon generation measured and modeled over 10 orders of magnitude of pump intensity”
✍️Julien Bertrand et al. from #Université Grenoble Alpes, @CNRS
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“3D printed freeform micro-optics meets generated Jacobian equations based inverse designs”
✍️Carlos Jimenez and Alois Herkommer from University of Stuttgart, Institute for Applied Optics (ITO) and Research Center SCoPE
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Ors%C3%B3s
Little-known Hungarian plant physiologist who figured out how to get a plantlet from a tissue-culture callus. A source says he committed suicide to escape fascism in September 1939 - unable to find the exact historical circumstances - someone who knows Hungarian and knows the history should be able to add to this entry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Charles_Sampson
Kew economic botanist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt_Mavor
American biologist and pioneer of radiation studies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bruynoghe
Dr Richard Bruynoghe, a Belgian pioneer of phage therapy
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“Effect of sample thickness on etching rate: Simulations and experiments”
✍️Anton Savchenko et al. from Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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