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Lazzaro Spallanzani

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008

Lazzaro Spallanzani , 1729-99, Italian naturalist. He was professor at the universities of Modena (1763-69) and Pavia (from 1769). Spallanzani studied regeneration, fertilization, and the digestive action of saliva; using heat-sterilized cultures, he performed experiments that disproved J. T. Needham's theory of spontaneous generation.

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