Hieronymus Fabricius

Hieronymus Fabricius
Girolamo Fabrizi d' Acquapendente
Born	20 May 1533 Acquapendente
Died	21 May 1619 (1619-05-22) (aged 86) Padua
Nationality	Italian
Education	University of Padua (M.D., 1559)
Scientific career
Fields	Anatomy
Institutions	University of Padua
Doctoral advisor	Gabriele Falloppio
Doctoral students	William Harvey Adriaan van den Spiegel Johannes Heurnius Jan Jesenius

Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente, also known as Girolamo Fabrizio or Hieronymus Fabricius (20 May 1533 – 21 May 1619), was a pioneering anatomist and surgeon known in medical science as "The Father of Embryology."