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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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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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Vivien Thomas

Vivien Thomas was an African American surgical technician and researcher who made foundational contributions to cardiac...

20TH Century Pioneer Cardiac Surgery

8.6 Great

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Jack Szostak

Jack Szostak is a Canadian-American biologist whose foundational research illuminated the mechanisms of cellular aging a...

21ST Century Genetics Harvard Nobel

8.6 Great

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Alfred Blalock

Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon whose work significantly advanced the fields of surgical shock treatment and card...

20TH Century Pioneer Cardiac Surgery

8.5 Great

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Gary Ruvkun

Gary Ruvkun is an American molecular biologist and professor at Harvard Medical School whose research focuses on the gen...

21ST Century Genetics Harvard Nobel

8.5 Great

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Thomas Weller

American virologist Thomas H. Weller shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Enders and Frederic...

20TH Century Harvard Virology Nobel

8.4 Great

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William Kaelin

American physician-scientist William G. Kaelin Jr. is a professor at Harvard Medical School and an investigator at the D...

21ST Century Harvard Oncology Nobel

8.4 Great

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Fritz Lipmann

Fritz Lipmann was a German-American biochemist who was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared wi...

20TH Century Biochemistry Harvard Nobel

8.3 Great

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Baruj Benacerraf

Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist whose research significantly advanced the understanding of the h...

20TH Century Harvard Immunology Nobel

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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Francis Moore

Francis Daniels Moore was an American surgeon and a prominent professor at Harvard Medical School, where he served as su...

20TH Century Harvard Surgery Metabolic Surgery

7.6 Good

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Anthony Atala

Anthony Atala is an American urological surgeon and the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine....

Modern Regenerative Tissue Engineering Urology

7.4 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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Rochelle Walensky

Rochelle Walensky is an American infectious-disease physician and researcher who served as director of the U.S. Centers...

Modern Harvard Infectious Disease Hiv

6.4 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

5.9 Mediocre

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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