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Two French scientists who first studied the phenomenon of osmosis in plant and then animal tissue. Left: Abbé Jean Antoine Nollet (1700-1770) (Courtesy Wikimedia Commons), Right: Henri Dutrochet (1747-1847) (Courtesy Wellcome Foundation)