# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-van-gehuchten
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:03.376Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-van-gehuchten"
name: "Arthur van Gehuchten"
slug: "arthur-van-gehuchten"
description: "Arthur van Gehuchten was a Belgian anatomist, born in Antwerp. He was professor in the faculty of medicine at the University of Leuven until the start of World War I in 1914. He moved to England and taught biology at Cambridge University until his death. Van Gehuchten is especially known for his contributions to the theory of neurons. In anatomy, the van Gehuchten method is the fixing of a histologic tissue in a mixture of glacial acetic acid 10 parts, chloroform 30 parts, and alcohol 60 parts."
tagline: "Belgian anatomist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_van_Gehuchten_(Adolf_Eckstein_1908).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1861-04-20"
deathDate: "1914-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             15
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "ارثر ڤان جيهوتشتين"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_van_Gehuchten"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_van_Gehuchten"
    title: "Arthur van Gehuchten"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump