Description: (German Anatomist Best Known for Inventing 'Plastination' and Establishing the 'Body Worlds' Exhibition)
German anatomist and physician Gunther von Hagens is best known for inventing plastination, or a unique method of preserving human body tissue after death. He also started the Body Worlds exhibition, to display dissections, and later established permanent exhibitions. He has also been dragged into legal hassles for using corpses illegally.