During some of my medical studies, I often stumble upon some interesting features in biology that have been discovered by great scientists at a time and usually their name is attributed to that kind of feature. This one specifically I picked up during my medical histology and embryology course…Malpighi has been all over the place…exceedingly busy guy back in a time…that’s for sure
This is what Encyclopedia Britannica claims about him:
Marcello Malpighi, (born March 10, 1628, Crevalcore, near Bologna, Papal States [Italy]—died Nov. 30, 1694, Rome), Italian physician and biologist who, in developing experimental methods to study living things, founded the science of microscopic anatomy. After Malpighi’s researches, microscopic anatomybecame a prerequisite for advances in the fields of physiology, embryology, and practical medicine.
More info on Marcello Malpighi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Malpighi
Following structures in histology tissues have been named after him:
Renal corpuscle (nephrology) in kidneys
Malphigian corpuscle in lymph node (spleen)
