Nello Beccari

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Nello Beccari (11 January 1883 – 20 March 1957) was an Italian professor of comparative and human anatomy. He studied the sexual cells of vertebrates and the nervous systems.

Beccari was born at Bagno a Ripoli, Florence, the son of Odoardo Beccari. He studied medicine and surgery at the institute of human anatomy in Florence under Giulio Chiarugi. He served in World War I and returned to work in 1921. In 1922 he became a professor of human anatomy at Catania and after the death of Davide Carazzi in 1925 he became a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Florence. In 1931 he went on a collecting expedition to British Guyana, and numerous arthropod specimens were obtained. Beccari became interested in the origin of germ cells in vertebrates and conductor histological studies. , Mario Galgano, and Valdo Mazzi were his students and assistants.[1][2][3]

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  1. ^ Baccetti, Baccio (1980). "Emanuele Padoa e lo sviluppo della biologia italiana". Bolletino di Zoologia. 47 (3–4): 419–434. doi:10.1080/11250008009438698.
  2. ^ "Le miscellanee della Biblioteca di Biologia Animale dell'Univerista degli studi di Firenze" (PDF). Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem., Serie B. 98: 135–152. 1991.
  3. ^ "Beccari, Nello". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani.
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