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By Laura Otis. 316 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007. $55. ISBN 978-0-19-530697-2.

There are fairytales we love to hear again and again. In the history of science, the tale of the child without any academic background who is raised to the scientific Olympus by his thirst for knowledge is such a story. Johannes Müller (1801–1858), the great physiologist, was quickly built up into such a figure by his early biographers. Müller himself believed that "one needs to know nothing of a scientist except the dates of his birth and death," as he wrote in a letter to Max Isensee in 1856, but this message went unheeded.

Müller, born the son of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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