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Wistar
Wistar may refer to:
- Caspar Wistar (1696–1752), Pennsylvania glassmaker and landowner.
- Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), physician and anatomist, grandson of the glassmaker.
- Isaac J. Wistar (1827-1905), Union general and penologist.
- Wistar Institute, a biomedical research center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named after the physician.
- Wistar rat, a strain of albino laboratory rats developed at the institute.
Usage examples of "wistar".
In that same year, 1818, Caspar Wistar died, but he did gain a certain unexpected immortality when a botanist named Thomas Nuttall named a delightful climbing shrub after him.
Thomas Nuttall, the man who named the wisteria after Caspar Wistar, came to America as an uneducated printer but discovered a passion for plants and walked halfway across the country and back again, collecting hundreds of growing things never seen before.
In 1967 a symposium was held at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia to debate them, with a dazzling array of fifty-two attendees from the ranks of the leading evolutionary biologists and skeptical mathematicians.