Filippo Pacini

Filippo Pacini
Born25 May 1812
Pistoia, Arno, French Empire
Died9 July 1883(1883-07-09) (aged 71)
Florence, Kingdom of Italy
CitizenshipItalian
Alma materPistoia
Known forPacinian corpuscles
Discovery of cholera bacillus
Scientific career
FieldsAnatomy
InstitutionsInstitute of Human Anatomy
Florence Lyceum
University of Florence Istituto di Studi Superiori
Doctoral advisorPaolo Savi

Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later.

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