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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

9.20 Excellent

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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

9.20 Excellent

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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

9.20 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

8.95 Great

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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

8.95 Great

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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

8.95 Great

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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

8.95 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

8.90 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

8.85 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

8.85 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

8.85 Great

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William Crawford Gorgas

William Crawford Gorgas was an American military physician and public-health officer who applied mosquito-control measur...

Military 19TH Century Public Health Panama

8.40 Great

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Anthony Fauci

Anthony Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Di...

Modern Public Health Infectious Disease Immunology

7.85 Good

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Tom Frieden

Tom Frieden is an American physician and epidemiologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Contr...

Modern Public Health Infectious Disease Epidemiology

7.70 Good

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Halfdan Mahler

Halfdan Mahler was a Danish physician who served as the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) from 197...

20TH Century Denmark Public Health Who

7.70 Good

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Jim Yong Kim

Jim Yong Kim is a Korean-American physician and medical anthropologist known for work in global health and development....

Modern Public Health Global Health Who

7.55 Good

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Lee Jong-wook

Lee Jong-wook was a South Korean physician and public health expert who served as the Director-General of the World Heal...

20TH Century Korea Public Health Who

7.35 Good

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Julie Gerberding

Julie Gerberding is an American infectious disease physician who served as the Director of the Centers for Disease Contr...

Modern Public Health Infectious Disease Cdc

7.05 Good

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Vivek Murthy

Vivek Murthy is an American physician and public health official who served as Surgeon General of the United States duri...

Modern Public Health Harvard Surgeon General

6.85 Fair

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Charles Vacanti

Charles Vacanti is an American anesthesiologist and tissue engineer known for work in regenerative medicine. He was a co...

Modern Regenerative Harvard Anesthesiology

5.90 Mediocre