Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow (1821-1902) was the first to describe leukaemia (cancer of the blood).
Short Biography:
In his book Die Cellulare Pathologie/Cellular Pomology in 1858, he proposed that disease is not due to sudden invasions or changes, but to slow processes in which normal cells give rise to abnormal ones.
Why is Rudolf Virchow famous?
Rudolf Virchow was a German pathologist and founder of cellular pathology.
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