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Marcel Benoist Prize
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1929-03-05 – 2019-02-19

Ewald Rudolf Weibel HonFRMS (5 March 1929 – 19 February 2019) was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist and former director of the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern. He was one of the first scientists to describe the endothelial organelles Weibel–Palade bodies, which are named after him and his Romanian-American colleague George Emil Palade. He was known for his work on the anatomy of gas exchange in lungs on multiple spatial scales using stereology.
biologist, university teacher, anatomist, physician
University of Zurich
reformed
Marcel Benoist Prize
Marcel Benoist Prize
reformed
University of Bern
Academia Europaea · American Academy of Arts and Sciences · German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina · National Academy of Sciences · Polish Academy of Sciences · Royal Microscopical Society
University of Zurich
Marcel Benoist Prize
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q119728 · wikidata
reformed
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q119728 · wikidata
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