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William Osler

Canadian physician William Osler (1849-1919) helped make direct work with patients central to medical education. As one...

Education 19TH Century Founder Johns Hopkins

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Spanish physician and histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) used microscopic studies of nervous tissue to suppo...

19TH Century Neurology Neuroscience Nobel

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Avicenna

Known in Latin as Avicenna, Ibn Sina (c. 980-1037) was a Persian polymath whose writings connected medicine with a wider...

Medieval Pharmacy Persian General Medicine

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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

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E. Donnall Thomas

American physician E. Donnall Thomas (1920-2012) helped establish bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemi...

20TH Century Pioneer Oncology Nobel

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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André Cournand

André Frédéric Cournand was a French-American physician who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with D...

20TH Century Cardiology Columbia Nobel

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Dickinson Richards

American physician who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Cournand and Forssmann for developing...

20TH Century Cardiology Columbia Nobel

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William Withering

William Withering was an 18th-century English botanist and physician best remembered for his systematic clinical investi...

18TH Century Pioneer Botany Cardiology

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Harlan Krumholz

Harlan Krumholz is an American cardiologist and the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine at Yale University, where...

Modern Data Science Yale Cardiology

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