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May 02, 1853 Wels, Upper Austria, Austria Died on 24 Dec 1917 (aged 64)
Austrian anatomist
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About Carl Rabl
- Carl Rabl (2 May 1853 in Wels, Austria – 24 December 1917 in Leipzig, Germany ) was an Austrian anatomist.
- His most notable achievement was on the structural consistency of chromosomes during the cell cycle.
- In 1885 he published that chromosomes do not lose their identity, even though they are no longer visible through the microscope. Rabl was sent to board at Winchester College in England with cousin Ludovic "Ludo" Rabl, while another cousin Rudolf Rabl boarded at Radley.
- As a student, his influences included Rudolf Leuckart at Leipzig, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke at Vienna and Ernst Haeckel at the University of Jena.
- In 1886, he became a full professor at the German University in Prague, and in 1904 succeeded Wilhelm His as professor of anatomy at the University of Leipzig.
- He was in charge of the anatomical institute at Leipzig until his death in 1917.In 1891 he married Marie Virchow, the daughter of German pathologist Rudolf Virchow.
- In 1902 he was a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine — the prize was, however, awarded to Ronald Ross in 1902 for his work involving malaria.
