Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787-1869) · Scientists · Died at 81

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time.

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Purkinje effect: simulated appearance of a red geranium and foliage in normal bright-light (photopic) vision, dusk (mesopic) vision, and night (scotopic) vision

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Foreign Member of the Royal Society

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně

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Spouse Julia Rudolphi

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Scientists born in the 1780s 6

William Sturgeon54.3

Adam Sedgwick53.5

Mary Somerville56.5

Otto von Kotzebue53.1

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner57.3

Heinrich Schwabe51.6

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Jan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. In 1839, he coined the term "protoplasma" for the fluid substance of a cell. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. Such was his fame that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all that they needed to put as the address was "Purkyně, Europe".