swap_horiz August Bier Alternatives

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Gazi Yasargil

Gazi Yasargil is a Turkish-born Swiss neurosurgeon whose work helped establish microneurosurgery as a modern surgical di...

Pioneer Neurosurgery Aneurysm Microsurgery

9.78 Brilliant

2

William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted helped shape modern American surgery through his work at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His approach em...

American General Pioneer Oncology

9.62 Brilliant

3

René Favaloro

René Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon whose work at the Cleveland Clinic helped establish coronary artery bypas...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.55 Brilliant

4

Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.53 Brilliant

5

John Kirklin

Mechanical support for circulation was central to John Kirklin's contribution to cardiac surgery. An American surgeon wo...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.50 Brilliant

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Lars Leksell

Lars Leksell was a Swedish neurosurgeon who developed influential methods for stereotactic brain surgery. He introduced...

Pioneer Swedish Neurosurgery Gamma Knife

9.36 Excellent

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Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American pediatric surgeon and biomedical researcher who proposed that tumor growth depends on angi...

American Pioneer Pediatric Oncology

9.22 Excellent

8

Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Ilizarov was a Soviet orthopedic surgeon associated with Kurgan in western Siberia. During the 1950s, he develop...

Orthopedic Pioneer Soviet External Fixator

9.20 Excellent

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Ernst Sauerbruch

German surgeon who built a negative-pressure chamber in 1904 to allow chest surgery without lung collapse, an innovation...

German Pioneer Early 20TH Century Chest

8.62 Great

10

Fedor Krause

Fedor Krause was a German surgeon, born in 1857 and deceased in 1937, who became an important figure in the early develo...

German Pioneer Early 20TH Century Brain

8.12 Great

11

Elliott Cutler

Elliott Cutler was an American surgeon associated with Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1923, he performed an ea...

American Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century

7.98 Good

12

Henry Souttar

Henry Souttar was a British surgeon who performed an early operation for mitral stenosis at the London Hospital in 1925....

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.86 Good

13

Ernest Hey Groves

Ernest William Hey Groves was a British surgeon whose work contributed to the development of modern orthopedic surgery d...

Orthopedic Pioneer Early 20TH Century British

7.78 Good

14

Victor Bonney

Victor Bonney was a British gynecological surgeon known for advancing conservative operations on the uterus during the e...

Pioneer Early 20TH Century British Gynecological

7.72 Good

15

Ernest Sachs

Ernest Sachs was an American neurosurgeon who contributed to the establishment of neurosurgery as an independent surgica...

American Pioneer Early 20TH Century Brain

7.62 Good

16

Laurence O'Shaughnessy

Laurence O'Shaughnessy was a British surgeon whose experimental work explored ways to improve the blood supply to heart...

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.58 Good

17

Georg Clemens Perthes

Georg Clemens Perthes was a German surgeon whose name is associated with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease, a childhood disorde...

German Orthopedic Pioneer Hip

7.58 Good

18

Pierre Fredet

Pierre Fredet was a French surgeon associated with an early operative treatment for infantile hypertrophic pyloric steno...

French Pioneer Early 20TH Century Pediatric

7.50 Good

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Henri Mondor

Henri Mondor was a French surgeon and medical writer who lived from 1885 to 1962. He described the condition now called...

French General Pioneer Early 20TH Century

7.42 Good

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Hugh Devine

Australian surgeon Hugh Devine (1878–1959) was a pioneer of colorectal surgery in Australia, advancing operative techniq...

Australian Pioneer Early 20TH Century Colorectal

7.22 Good