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Alfonso Corti
(22 Jun 1822 - 2 Oct 1876)
Italian anatomist and histologist who is remembered for his microscopic anatomy work, especially on the human inner ear and the structure named after him, the organ of Corti.
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Science Quotes by Alfonso Corti (1 quote)
I have not been aware of any one else [than Joseph Leidy] in America interested in microscopic anatomy, and write to interest you in my investigation of the organ of hearing.
— Alfonso Corti
Describing Joseph Leidy in a letter to him (1852). As quoted, without further source detail, in Henry Fairfield Osborn, 'Biographical Memoir of Joseph Leidy', collected in National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs: Volume 7 (1913), 345.
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- 22 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Corti's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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