Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682–1771), an Italian physician and the founder of pathological anatomy, the study of diseased tissue. He was the first to describe tuberculosis of the kidney and cirrhosis of the liver. Morgagni was a professor at the University of Padua from 1710 until he died.
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Cite This!
Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article:
"Giovanni Battista Morgagni" 21 October 2008. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/famous-scientists/biologists/giovanni-battista-morgagni-info.htm> 10 February 2012.
Cite
You Might Also Like
Robert Bruce Merrifield
Merrifield, Robert Bruce (1921-) is an American biochemist who won the 1984 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his method of producing peptides and proteins.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain
Chain, Sir Ernst Boris (1906-1979), a British biochemist. In the late 1930's, he and the British pathologist Howard W.
