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Scientist of the Day
Jeffries Wyman
AUGUST 11, 2015
Jeffries Wyman, an American anatomist, was born Aug. 11, 1814. Wyman, a professor at Harvard, was the first person to scientifically describe the gorilla, from specimens brought back from Africa by Thomas Savage in 1847. Savage was a physician and a missionary from...