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Gazi Yasargil

Gazi Yasargil is a Turkish-born Swiss neurosurgeon whose work helped establish microneurosurgery as a modern surgical di...

Pioneer Neurosurgery Aneurysm Microsurgery

9.78 Brilliant

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William Stewart Halsted

William Stewart Halsted helped shape modern American surgery through his work at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His approach em...

American General Pioneer Oncology

9.62 Brilliant

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René Favaloro

René Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon whose work at the Cleveland Clinic helped establish coronary artery bypas...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.55 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.53 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

Mechanical support for circulation was central to John Kirklin's contribution to cardiac surgery. An American surgeon wo...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.50 Brilliant

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Lars Leksell

Lars Leksell was a Swedish neurosurgeon who developed influential methods for stereotactic brain surgery. He introduced...

Pioneer Swedish Neurosurgery Gamma Knife

9.36 Excellent

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Judah Folkman

Judah Folkman was an American pediatric surgeon and biomedical researcher who proposed that tumor growth depends on angi...

American Pioneer Pediatric Oncology

9.22 Excellent

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Gavriil Ilizarov

Gavriil Ilizarov was a Soviet orthopedic surgeon associated with Kurgan in western Siberia. During the 1950s, he develop...

Orthopedic Pioneer Soviet External Fixator

9.20 Excellent

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Andreas Grüntzig

Andreas Gruntzig was a German-born physician who worked in Switzerland and helped found modern interventional cardiology...

Swiss Pioneer Cardiac Angioplasty

9.18 Excellent

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Nikolai Pirogov

Nikolai Pirogov was a Russian surgeon, anatomist, and educator whose work influenced military medicine and surgical anat...

Military Russian Anatomy 19TH Century

9.14 Excellent

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Aldo Castañeda

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infa...

Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric Guatemalan American

9.12 Excellent

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Roy Calne

Roy Calne was a British surgeon and researcher whose work helped establish clinical organ transplantation. Based at Camb...

Pioneer British Immunosuppression Transplant

9.10 Excellent

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Hugh Owen Thomas

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh surgeon whose work helped establish modern orthopedics in Britain. He developed...

Orthopedic 19TH Century Pioneer British

9.00 Excellent

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William Macewen

William Macewen (1848-1924) was a Scottish surgeon associated with the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the University of Gla...

General Pioneer Scottish Aseptic

8.92 Great

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Howard Kelly

Howard Atwood Kelly (1858-1943) was an American gynecologist and one of the four founding professors of the Johns Hopkin...

American 19TH Century Pioneer Johns Hopkins

8.72 Great

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James Syme

James Syme was a nineteenth-century Scottish surgeon and an influential teacher at the University of Edinburgh. He descr...

19TH Century General Pioneer Scottish

8.22 Great

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Frederick Treves

Sir Frederick Treves was a British surgeon known for his work in abdominal surgery and for two prominent associations in...

19TH Century General Pioneer British

7.74 Good

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Joseph Bell

Joseph Bell was a Scottish surgeon and teacher at the University of Edinburgh who was noted for using detailed observati...

19TH Century General Pioneer Scottish

7.56 Good

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James Learmonth

Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth was a Scottish surgeon whose work encompassed vascular surgery, peripheral nerves, and the...

Pioneer Vascular Scottish Arterial

7.34 Good

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Robert Barnes

Robert Barnes was a nineteenth-century British physician specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. He wrote and taught...

19TH Century Pioneer British Obstetrics

7.16 Good