Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later. == Biography == Filippo Pacini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, to Francesco Pacini, a humble cobbler, and Umiltà Dolfi, but was given a religious education in hopes that he would become a bishop.
Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later. == Biography == Filippo Pacini was born in Pistoia, Tuscany, to Francesco Pacini, a humble cobbler, and Umiltà Dolfi, but was given a religious education in hopes that he would become a bishop.
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