Willem Piso was a Dutch physician and naturalist who participated as an expedition doctor in Dutch Brazil from 1637 – 1644, sponsored by count Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen and the Dutch West India Company. Piso became one of the founders of tropical medicine.
- Occupation
- physician, botanist, biologist, ornithologist
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Born
- 1611, 1611
- Died
- 1678
