swap_horiz Richard Bright Alternatives

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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

3

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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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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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

8.80 Great

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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

8.75 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

8.75 Great

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Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-American physician who became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United S...

19TH Century Pioneer Women's Health General Medicine

8.55 Great

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Akira Endo

Akira Endo is a Japanese biochemist whose research into fungal metabolites led to the creation of statins, a globally vi...

Japan 20TH Century Pioneer Pharmacology

8.55 Great

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Alois Alzheimer

Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) was a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who worked at the Royal Psychiatric Clinic in...

19TH Century Neurology Pioneer Dementia

8.25 Great

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Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham (1624–1689) was an English physician recognized as a founder of clinical medicine and epidemiology. He e...

Pioneer Clinical 17TH Century Epidemiology

8.20 Great

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Emil Kraepelin

German psychiatrist who developed an influential classification of mental disorders in the late 19th century, distinguis...

19TH Century Pioneer Classification Psychiatry

8.15 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

7.85 Good

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Thomas Addison

Thomas Addison (1793–1860) was an English physician who practiced at Guy's Hospital in London alongside Richard Bright a...

19TH Century Pioneer Endocrinology Adrenal

7.75 Good

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Thomas Hodgkin

Thomas Hodgkin was a prominent English physician and pathologist who worked at Guy's Hospital in London during the 19th...

19TH Century Pioneer Pathology Lymphoma

7.55 Good

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William Coley

William Coley was an American bone surgeon and cancer researcher who practiced in New York during the late 19th and earl...

19TH Century Pioneer Immunotherapy Cancer

7.55 Good

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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

5.75 Mediocre