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    John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest. He was first exposed to natural...
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    1038/434142a. Retrieved 10 February 2024. Roe, Shirley A. (1983). "John Turberville Needham and the Generation of Living Organisms". Isis. 74 (2): 159–184...
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    educated at the English College, Douai, and subsequently under John Turberville Needham, the biologist and Roman Catholic priest. In 1758 he came of age...
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    Mazzolini, R G (January 1976). "Two letters on epigenesis from John Turberville Needham to Albrecht von Haller". Journal of the History of Medicine and...
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    phenomena as Leeuwenhoek observed it was never given a name. In 1743, John Turberville Needham observed the revival of the encysted larval stage of the wheat...
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    Dutens, the distinguished English Catholic natural philosopher John Turberville Needham, and the historian Edward Gibbon; becoming a member of Gibbon's...
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  • in an aside, the dreaming d'Alembert expresses his support for John Turberville Needham's theory of spontaneous generation, which would explain the existence...
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  • Caspar Needham 1663-05-20 c. 1622 – 31 October 1679 Original Dorothy Mary Moyle Needham 1948-03-18 22 September 1896 – 22 December 1987 John Turberville Needham...
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  • sketch contains links to other biographies. For example, the article about John Franklin Enders [1195] has the sentence "Alexander Fleming's [1077] penicillin...
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  • (Yorkshire) John Smith (1871–1872) : J. Smith (Cambridgeshire) A. H. Smith-Barry (1873–1875) : A. H. Smith-Barry (MCC) Harry Smith-Turberville (1886) : H...
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