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Pieter Harting

1812–85

Dutch zoologist and microscopist. MD, Utrecht, 1835; doctorate in obstetrics, 1837. Professor of pharmacy at the Athenaeum, Franeker, 1841; of zoology, Utrecht, 1846–82.

Sources

BHGW

DSB.

Bibliography

BHGW: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften enthaltend Nachweisung über Lebensverhältnisse und Leistungen von Mathematikern, Astronomen, Physikern, Chemikern, Mineralogen, Geologen usw. By Johann Christian Poggendorff. 5 vols. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth; Verlag Chemie. 1863–1926.

DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.

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