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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

8.2 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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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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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

7.6 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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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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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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Richard Besser

Richard Besser is an American pediatrician who served as acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

Modern Infectious Disease Cdc Pediatrics

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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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

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Didier Raoult

French infectious disease specialist and microbiologist who became globally controversial in 2020 for promoting hydroxyc...

Modern Controversial France Infectious Disease

4.4 Poor