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    Niels Steensen (Danish: Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolas Steno or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 [NS: 11 January 1638 – 5 December...
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  • Venice Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), the latinised name of Niels Steensen (or Stensen), a pioneer in anatomy and geology Stefano Vanzina (aka Steno) (1915–1988)...
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    Kollegium and is noted for being the influential instructor of scientist Nicolas Steno. Borch was born at Nørre Bork in the Diocese of Ribe, Denmark. He was...
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    Nicole Oresme, Jean Buridan, Robert Grosseteste, Christopher Clavius, Nicolas Steno, Athanasius Kircher, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and William of Ockham...
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  • managing diabetes, located in Gentofte, Denmark. It is named after Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen, 1638–1686). The center was established in 1991 as a...
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    of superposition was first proposed in 1669 by the Danish scientist Nicolas Steno, and is present as one of his major theses in the groundbreaking seminal...
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    (1027) on the concept of stratification and superposition, pre-dating Nicolas Steno by more than six centuries. Avicenna also recognised fossils as "petrifications...
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    allow for imaging of the parotid duct. The parotid duct is named after Nicolas Steno (1638–1686), also known as Niels Stensen, a Danish anatomist (albeit...
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    Arthur Moritz Schönflies Dan Shechtman George M. Sheldrick Tej P. Singh Nicolas Steno Constance Tipper Daniel Vorländer Christian Samuel Weiss Don Craig Wiley...
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  • by looking so far into the abyss of time". Early geologists such as Nicolas Steno and Horace Bénédict de Saussure had developed ideas of geological strata...
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