German anatomist who devised a system of ‘plastination’ to preserve cadavers that were exhibited all over the world

During a "Body Worlds" show in London in 2002, the anatomist conducted Britain's first public autopsy in 170 years before a sellout crowd of hundreds, defying government warnings…

Gunther Von Hagens, the inventor of the method of preserving the human body called plastination, died on Friday in a German hospital at the age of 81.