Raffaele Molin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian physician, zoologist and geologist (1825–1887)
Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1825
Place of Birth: Zadar, Zadar County, Croatia
Date of Death: 29-Jun-1887
Profession: zoologist, biologist
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Raffaele Molin
- Raffaele Molin (27 October 1825 – 29 June 1887) was an Italian scientist with successful career as physician, zoologist, geologist.
- He is most revered for his works in ichthyology and parasitology.
- He is immortalised as the authority of a number of parasitic worms. He was born in Zadar on 27 October 1825.
- His father was Ferdinand Astolfi and mother Margaret Trevisani.
- He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, from where he graduated in 1849.
- In 1851, shortly after the retirement of professor TA Catullus, he was appointed by the Austrian Government to be the successor as professor of natural sciences at the University of Padua.
- He started dual teaching in zoology and mineralogy on 4 February 1852.
- From 1856 he began to devote himself to research in ichthyology.On 13 January 1856 he was elected as member of the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Padua.
- His research work centred at the provinces of Vienna, where he made his first contribution in helminthology.
- In 1858 he described for the first time a chicken parasite Capillaria annulata.
- Eventually in the spring of 1866, he moved to Vienna.
- In 1867, he was appointed by the Government of Vienna as professor of applied zoology at the Imperial-Royal Polytechnic Institute (now Vienna University of Technology).
- However, he remained there only up to January 1875.
- In 1878, he obtained the professional license as practitioner physician.
- He even opened free clinic for the poor two days a week.
- From 1885 to 1887 he taught as a lecturer at the Vienna College of Agriculture, while maintaining a hobby of breeding of pets and aquatic animals. He died in Vienna on 29 June 1887.
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