Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
German physician and anatomist
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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. Wikipedia
Born: January 28, 1755, Toruń, Poland
Died: March 2, 1830 (age 75 years), Frankfurt, Germany
Children: Detmar Wilhelm Soemmerring
Parents: Johann Thomas Sömmerring and Regina Soemmerring