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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

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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

8.95 Great

3

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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Vivien Thomas

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

20TH Century Pioneer Cardiac Surgery

8.55 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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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

8.45 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

8.40 Great

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Hamilton Smith

American microbiologist Hamilton O. Smith is a professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. He shared the 1978 Nobel...

Microbiology 20TH Century Nobel Johns Hopkins

8.35 Great

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Daniel Nathans

Daniel Nathans (1928–1999) was an American microbiologist who spent his career at Johns Hopkins University. He shared th...

Microbiology 20TH Century Nobel Johns Hopkins

8.30 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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Peter Agre

Peter Agre is an American physician-scientist who conducted his Nobel Prize-winning research at Johns Hopkins University...

20TH Century Biochemistry Nobel Johns Hopkins

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

15

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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Richard Bright

Richard Bright (1789–1858) was an English physician associated with Guy's Hospital in London, where he worked alongside...

19TH Century Pioneer Kidney Internal Medicine

7.70 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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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

6.85 Fair

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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