swap_horiz Jim Yong Kim Alternatives

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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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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

8.4 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

7.9 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

7.7 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

7.7 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

7.4 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

7.1 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

6.9 Fair

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Jerome Adams

Jerome M. Adams is an American anesthesiologist and public-health official who served as the 20th Surgeon General of the...

Modern Public Health Indiana Surgeon General

6.2 Fair