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William Osler

William Osler (1849–1919) was a Canadian physician who became one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospi...

Education 19TH Century Founder Johns Hopkins

9.2 Excellent

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934) was a Spanish histologist and physician whose detailed microscopic studies of nervous...

19TH Century Neurology Neuroscience Nobel

9.2 Excellent

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Avicenna

Avicenna (Ibn Sina, c. 980–1037) was a Persian polymath whose medical encyclopedia "The Canon of Medicine" (al-Qanun fi...

Medieval Pharmacy Persian General Medicine

9.2 Excellent

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William Halsted

American surgeon at Johns Hopkins who pioneered aseptic technique, introduced rubber surgical gloves, and established on...

19TH Century Pioneer Surgery Johns Hopkins

9.0 Excellent

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E. Donnall Thomas

E. Donnall Thomas (1920–2012) was an American physician who pioneered bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leu...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Nobel

9.0 Excellent

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Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1899–1985) was an Australian virologist and immunologist who spent most of his career at the Wa...

Australia 20TH Century Immunology Nobel

9.0 Excellent

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D.A. Henderson

D.A. Henderson was an American epidemiologist and physician recognized for his leadership in the global eradication of s...

20TH Century Pioneer Epidemiology Who

9.0 Excellent

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Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain (1906–1979) was a German-born British biochemist who fled Nazi Germany and joined Howard Florey's laboratory...

Research 20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel

8.9 Great

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Elie Metchnikoff

Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916) was a Russian-born zoologist and immunologist who discovered phagocytosis in 1882, observin...

Research 19TH Century Immunology Nobel

8.9 Great

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Giovanni Battista Morgagni

Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771) was an Italian anatomist and professor at the University of Padua. His five-volum...

18TH Century Italian Anatomy Pioneer

8.9 Great

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René Laennec

René Laennec (1781–1826) was a French physician who invented the stethoscope in 1816, originally as a wooden tube to lis...

18TH Century French Pioneer Cardiology

8.9 Great

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César Milstein

César Milstein (1927–2002) was an Argentine-British biochemist who spent his career at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular B...

20TH Century Immunology Nobel Cambridge

8.9 Great

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Max Theiler

Max Theiler (1899–1972) was a South African-born virologist who worked at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. He dev...

Research 20TH Century Virology Nobel

8.9 Great

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Emil von Behring

Emil von Behring was a German physiologist and physician who developed serum therapy, fundamentally establishing the fie...

19TH Century Immunology Nobel Diphtheria

8.8 Great

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Georges Köhler

Georges Köhler (1946–1995) was a German immunologist who, while working as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Laborato...

Research 20TH Century Immunology Nobel

8.8 Great

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John Gurdon

John Gurdon (born 1933) is a British developmental biologist whose 1962 experiments at Oxford demonstrated that the nucl...

20TH Century Developmental Biology Nobel Cambridge

8.8 Great

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George Papanicolaou

George Papanicolaou was a Greek-American cytopathologist who invented the Papanicolaou test, commonly known as the Pap s...

20TH Century Pioneer Pathology Pap Smear

8.8 Great

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John Enders

John Enders (1897–1985) was an American virologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. In 1949, wi...

20TH Century Harvard Virology Nobel

8.8 Great

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Joseph Goldstein

Joseph Goldstein is an American geneticist and biochemist whose research with Michael S. Brown at the University of Texa...

20TH Century Genetics Nobel Ut Southwestern

8.8 Great

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Ezekiel Emanuel

Ezekiel Emanuel is an American oncologist, bioethicist, and healthcare policy expert who currently serves as a professor...

Modern Author Bioethics Health Policy

7.0 Good