Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring

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Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German medical doctor, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye.

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