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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring
(28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) 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 malformations, on the structure of the
lung
s, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists.
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