de Graaf, Regnier

Edward G Ruestow, University of Colorado, Colorado, USA

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002407

1641–1673 Dutch anatomist and experimental physiologist who demonstrated the nature of the mammalian ovaries.

Keywords: ovary; Graafian follicle; testis; pancreas; Sylvius

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Further Reading
	book de Graaf R (1664) De succi pancreatici natura et usu, exercitatio anatomico-medica. Leiden: Hackiana.
	book de Graaf R (1668) De vivorum organis generationi inservientibus. Leiden & Rotterdam: Hackiana.
	book de Graaf R (1672) De mulierum organis generationi inservientibus tractatus novus. Leiden: Hackiana.
	book de Graaf R (1972) Regnier de Graaf on the Human Reproductive Organs. Oxford: Blackwell.
	book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Foster M (1901) Lectures on the History of Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Cambridge: University Press.
	book Lindeboom GA (1973) Reinier de Graaf: Leven en werken 30-7-1641/17-8-1673. Delft: Elmar.
	book Roger J (1997) The Life Sciences in Eighteenth-Century French Thought. Benson KR (ed.) [translated by R Ellrich]. Stanford: Stanford University Press.