Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and anthropologist (born 1755)

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its…