Giovanni Antonio Galli Giovanni Antonio Galli Giovanni Antonio Galli (1708–1782) was a physician who pioneered the teaching of obstetrics in Bologna using three-dimensional models. Giovanni Antonio Galli was born in 1708. He was appointed a Professor in the School of Surgery of the University of Bologna. Galli opened a school on obstetrics in his house. He encouraged Anna Morandi Manzolini, wife and assistant of the wax anatomical modeler Giovanni Manzolini, to give private lectures on anatomy. She had learned from her husband and from her own experience in dissection, and gained a European reputation. Anna Morandi was widowed in 1755. Soon after, she
Alan Muir (anatomist) Alan Muir (anatomist) Professor Alan Ramsey Muir FRSE (1925–1974) was a 20th-century British anatomist. He was one of the first lecturers to instruct in the use of the electron microscope. He was born in 1925 at Ramsey on the Isle of Man. He was educated at St John Deans's Grammar School in Northwich then King William's College in the Isle of Man. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1947. After 18 months as House Surgeon at Northampton Infirmary he then served 18 months National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps at