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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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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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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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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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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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William Foege

William Foege is an American physician and epidemiologist who played a pivotal role in the global eradication of smallpo...

20TH Century Pioneer Epidemiology Cdc

8.8 Great

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Alois Alzheimer

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who worked at the Royal Psychiatric Clinic in...

19TH Century Neurology Pioneer Dementia

8.3 Great

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Emil Kraepelin

German psychiatrist who developed an influential classification of mental disorders in the late 19th century, distinguis...

19TH Century Pioneer Classification Psychiatry

8.2 Great

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Nikolai Korotkov

Nikolai Sergeyevich Korotkov (1874–1920) was a Russian surgeon who graduated from the Imperial Military Medical Academy...

Russia 19TH Century Pioneer Surgery

7.9 Good

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Thomas Addison

Thomas Addison (1793–1860) was an English physician who practiced at Guy's Hospital in London alongside Richard Bright a...

19TH Century Pioneer Endocrinology Adrenal

7.8 Good

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Richard Bright

Richard Bright (1789–1858) was an English physician associated with Guy's Hospital in London, where he worked alongside...

19TH Century Pioneer Kidney Internal Medicine

7.7 Good

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Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin was a prominent English physician and pathologist who worked at Guy's Hospital in London during the 19th...

19TH Century Pioneer Pathology Lymphoma

7.6 Good

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William Coley

William Coley was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher who practiced in New York during the late 19th and earl...

19TH Century Pioneer Immunotherapy Cancer

7.6 Good

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James Marion Sims

James Marion Sims was an American surgeon whose work on vesicovaginal fistula helped establish surgical techniques later...

Controversial 19TH Century Pioneer Surgery

5.8 Mediocre