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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

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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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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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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

8.9 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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Peter Piot

Peter Piot is a Belgian microbiologist and physician who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976 while investigating an ou...

Modern Infectious Disease Hiv Ebola

8.3 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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James Curran

James Curran is an American physician and epidemiologist who played a central role in the United States' early response...

20TH Century Epidemiology Cdc Hiv Aids

7.3 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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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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Didier Raoult

Didier Raoult is a French physician and microbiologist whose work has focused on infectious diseases, including ricketts...

Modern Controversial France Infectious Disease

4.4 Poor