Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest.He was first exposed to natural philosophy while in seminary school and later published a paper which, while the subject was mostly about geology, described the mechanics of pollen and won recognition in the botany community.He did experiments with gravy and later, tainted wheat, in containers. This was in order to experiment with spontaneous generation.. }
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- John_Needham comment "John Turberville Needham FRS (10 September 1713 – 30 December 1781) was an English biologist and Roman Catholic priest.He was first exposed to natural philosophy while in seminary school and later published a paper which, while the subject was mostly about geology, described the mechanics of pollen and won recognition in the botany community.He did experiments with gravy and later, tainted wheat, in containers. This was in order to experiment with spontaneous generation.".