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Jeffries Wyman
(11 Aug 1815 - 4 Sep 1874)
American comparative anatomist and naturalist who as a pioneer anthropologist, made the first scientific study of gorillas (the name he clarified), and identified them as a species different from orangutans.
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Quotes by others about Jeffries Wyman (2)
Wyman … saw where others only looked.
On the observation skills of Jeffries Wyman. From 'Professor Jeffries Wyman: A Memorial Outline', The Atlantic Monthly (Nov 1874), 617.
Why have … so many … eminently furnished for professional success, seen fit to give up all their professional prospects and take the almost monastic vows of the devotee to science? Doctor Louis Agassiz, Doctor Asa Gray, Doctor Jeffries Wyman, were all duly qualified to exercise the healing art. They each left its beaten road for the several paths to which they found themselves called.
Noting how these scientists (respectively biologist, botanist, anatomist) first trained to be physicians. In 'Professor Jeffries Wyman: A Memorial Outline', The Atlantic Monthly (Nov 1874), 620.
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- 11 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Wyman'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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