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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Wallace Calvin Abbott
Doctor
12-Oct-1857 4-Jul-1921 Founder of Abbott Laboratories
Patch Adams
Doctor
28-May-1945   Gesundheit! Institute
Edgar Adrian
Scientist
30-Nov-1889 4-Aug-1977 Electricity within nerve cells
Arthur Agatston
Doctor
1947   The South Beach Diet
al-Razi
Doctor
c. 865 AD 27-Oct-925 AD Persian alchemist
Charles Alderton
Inventor
21-Jun-1857 29-May-1941 Invented Dr Pepper
Robert J. Alpern
Doctor
c. 1950   Dean, Yale School of Medicine
David Alter
Inventor
3-Dec-1807 18-Sep-1881 Almost discovered spectroscopy
Alois Alzheimer
Doctor
14-Jun-1864 19-Dec-1915 Alzheimer's Disease
Virginia Apgar
Doctor
7-Jun-1909 7-Aug-1974 Anesthesiologist, Apgar Score
John Arbuthnot
Doctor
1667 27-Feb-1735 Scriblerus Club
Asclepiades
Doctor
124 BC c. 40 BC Corpuscular theory of medicine
Hans Asperger
Doctor
18-Feb-1906 21-Oct-1980 Asperger's Syndrome
Robert Atkins
Doctor
17-Oct-1930 17-Apr-2003 Atkins Diet doctor
Alexander T. Augusta
Doctor
8-Mar-1825 21-Dec-1890 First black battlefield surgeon
Dennis A. Ausiello
Doctor
c. 1945   Massachusetts General Hospital
John H. Austin
Doctor
c. 1944 29-May-2009 Arcadian Management Services
Avenzoar
Doctor
c. 1090 1162 Prominent Arab physician
Averroës
Philosopher
1126 1198 Islamic commentator on the classics
Avicenna
Doctor
980 AD 1037 Canon of Medicine
Richard Axel
Scientist
2-Jul-1946   Odorant receptors and olfactory organization
Joseph Babinski
Doctor
17-Nov-1857 29-Oct-1932 The Babinski sign
Dr. Michael Baden
Doctor
1934   Forensic pathologist on HBO's Autopsy
Lenox D. Baker, Jr.
Doctor
c. 1942   Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons
John C. Baldwin
Doctor
c. 1949   Health Sciences Center, Texas Tech
Frederick G. Banting
Scientist
14-Nov-1891 21-Feb-1941 Discovered insulin
Robert Bárány
Doctor
22-Apr-1876 8-Apr-1936 Studied inner ear, equilibrium system
Christiaan Barnard
Doctor
8-Nov-1922 2-Sep-2001 Performed the first heart transplant
Neal D. Barnard
Doctor
?   Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Gaspard Bauhin
Botanist
17-Jan-1560 5-Dec-1624 Pinax Theatri Botanici
William Bayliss
Doctor
2-May-1860 27-Aug-1924 Co-Discovered hormones
William Beaumont
Doctor
21-Nov-1785 25-Apr-1853 Observed human digestion
Emil von Behring
Doctor
15-Mar-1854 31-Mar-1917 Created diptheria innoculation
Sir Charles Bell
Doctor
Nov-1774 28-Apr-1842 New Idea of Anatomy of the Brain
Lorenzo Bellini
Doctor
3-Sep-1643 8-Jan-1704 Discovered kidney's Bellini Ducts
Baruj Benacerraf
Scientist
29-Oct-1920 2-Aug-2011 Gene control of HLA antigens
Regina Benjamin
Doctor
26-Oct-1956   US Surgeon General
Sune K. Bergström
Scientist
10-Jan-1916 15-Aug-2004 Prostaglandins
Claude Bernard
Doctor
12-Jul-1813 10-Feb-1878 French physiologist
Marie-François-Xavier Bichat
Doctor
11-Nov-1771 22-Jul-1802 Anatomie générale
Jacob Bigelow
Botanist
27-Feb-1787 10-Jan-1879 American Medical Botany
John S. Billings
Administrator
12-Apr-1838 11-Mar-1913 New York Public Library
Theodor Billroth
Doctor
26-Apr-1829 6-Feb-1894 Viennese surgeon
J. Michael Bishop
Scientist
22-Feb-1936   Genetic causes of cancer
James W. Black
Scientist
14-Jun-1924 22-Mar-2010 Propranolol and cimetidine
Elizabeth Blackwell
Doctor
3-Feb-1821 31-May-1910 America's first woman doctor
Alfred Blalock
Doctor
5-Apr-1899 15-Sep-1964 "Blue baby" operation
Günter Blobel
Scientist
21-May-1936   Protein signaling in cells
Pedro Bloch
Playwright
17-Apr-1914 23-Feb-2004 The Hands of Eurydice
Baruch S. Blumberg
Scientist
28-Jul-1925 5-Apr-2011 Hepatitis B vaccine
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Doctor
28-Jan-1608 31-Dec-1679 De motu animalium
Daniel Bovet
Scientist
23-Mar-1907 8-Apr-1992 Anti-histamines, muscle relaxants, sulfanilamide
Lester Breslow
Doctor
17-Mar-1915 9-Apr-2012 Dean, UCLA School of Public Health, 1972-80
Peter W. Brown
Doctor
c. 1942   Virginia Surgical Associates
Sir Thomas Browne
Author
19-Oct-1605 19-Oct-1682 Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Scientist
3-Sep-1899 31-Aug-1985 Acquired immunological tolerance
George Busk
Doctor
12-Aug-1807 10-Aug-1886 British surgeon and zoologist
Robert N. Butler
Doctor
21-Jan-1927 4-Jul-2010 Expert on aging
William T. Butler
Doctor
c. 1932   Baylor College of Medicine
John Caius
Doctor
6-Oct-1510 29-Jul-1573 Second founder of Gonville and Caius College
Helen Caldicott
Activist
7-Aug-1938   Anti-nuclear crusader
Walter Bradford Cannon
Scientist
19-Oct-1871 1-Oct-1945 Fight or flight response
Girolamo Cardano
Doctor
24-Sep-1501 21-Sep-1576 De Subtilitate
Arvid Carlsson
Scientist
25-Jan-1923   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Richard H. Carmona
Doctor
22-Nov-1949   US Surgeon General, 2002-06
Alexis Carrel
Doctor
28-Jun-1873 5-Nov-1944 Sutured blood vessels
Benjamin S. Carson
Doctor
18-Sep-1951   Pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins
Ernst B. Chain
Scientist
19-Jun-1906 12-Aug-1979 Isolated penicillin
Margaret F. C. Chan
Doctor
1947   WHO Director-General
Jean-Martin Charcot
Doctor
29-Nov-1825 16-Aug-1893 Father of neurology
John Charnley
Doctor
29-Aug-1912 5-Aug-1982 Hip replacement surgery
Brock Chisholm
Doctor
18-May-1896 4-Feb-1971 First Director-General of World Health Organization
Aaron Ciechanover
Scientist
1-Oct-1947   Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
A. J. Clark
Scientist
19-Aug-1885 30-Jul-1941 Drug responses
Albert Claude
Scientist
23-Aug-1899 22-May-1983 Microstructure of the cell
Alex Comfort
Doctor
10-Feb-1920 26-Mar-2000 The Joy of Sex
Denton Cooley
Doctor
22-Aug-1920   Pioneering heart surgeon
André F. Cournand
Scientist
24-Sep-1895 19-Feb-1988 Cardiac catheterization
Harvey Cushing
Doctor
8-Apr-1869 7-Oct-1939 Cushing's Syndrome
Henry Dale
Scientist
9-Jun-1875 23-Jul-1968 Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Jean Dausset
Scientist
19-Oct-1916 6-Jun-2009 Recognition of HLA antigens
Michael DeBakey
Doctor
7-Sep-1908 11-Jul-2008 Father of cardiovascular surgery
Pierre-Joseph Desault
Doctor
6-Feb-1738 1-Jun-1795 Surgeon at Hôtel Dieu
Susan Desmond-Hellmann
Doctor
1958   Chancellor of UCSF
Alphonse Dochez
Doctor
21-Apr-1882 30-Jun-1964 Scarlet fever, pneumonia, common cold
E. C. Dodds
Scientist
13-Oct-1899 16-Dec-1973 Diethylstilbestrol
Gerhard Domagk
Scientist
30-Oct-1895 24-Apr-1964 Sulfa drugs for strep, stapf infections
John Langdon Down
Doctor
18-Nov-1828 7-Oct-1896 Down's syndrome
Charles Drew
Doctor
3-Jun-1904 1-Apr-1950 First to separate blood plasma
Renato Dulbecco
Scientist
22-Feb-1914 20-Feb-2012 Tumor viruses and host genetics
Christian de Duve
Scientist
2-Oct-1917   Microstructure of the cell
Victor J. Dzau
Doctor
1946   CEO of Duke University Health System
Dr. Dean Edell
Radio Personality
c. 1941   Syndicated call-in radio doctor
Gerald M. Edelman
Scientist
1-Jul-1929   Chemical structure of antibodies
Paul Ehrlich
Doctor
14-Mar-1854 20-Aug-1915 Father of chemotherapy
Willem Einthoven
Scientist
21-May-1860 28-Sep-1927 Invented the electrocardiograph
Joseph Erlanger
Scientist
5-Jan-1874 5-Dec-1965 Nerve conduction
Bartolomeo Eustachi
Scientist
c. 1500 27-Aug-1574 Anatomist
Girolamo Fabrici
Doctor
20-May-1537 21-May-1619 De Venarum Ostiolis
Gabriele Falloppio
Doctor
1523 9-Oct-1562 Observationes anatomicae
Emerson D. Farley, Jr.
Doctor
c. 1938   Retired Physician, Richmond, Virginia
Paul Farmer
Doctor
1959   Doctor for the world's poorest
Randolph M. Ferlic
Doctor
17-Jul-1936   Thoracic surgeon
Johannes Fibiger
Scientist
23-Apr-1867 30-Jan-1928 Caused cancer in lab rats
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Doctor
15-Dec-1860 25-Sep-1904 Light therapy for lupus
Edward Floyd
Doctor
c. 1934   Floyd Medical Associates
Werner Forssmann
Doctor
29-Aug-1904 1-Jun-1979 Cardiac catheterization
Dan Fortmann
Football
11-Apr-1916 23-May-1995 NFL Hall of Fame Guard
T. R. Fraser
Scientist
5-Feb-1841 4-Jan-1920 Made poison and venom into medicine
A. Stone Freedberg
Doctor
30-May-1908 25-Aug-2009 Found H. Pylori near stomach ulcers
John Freind
Doctor
1675 26-Jul-1728 The History of Physic
Michael A. Friedman
Doctor
c. 1944   Oncologist, City of Hope
Bill Frist
Politician
22-Feb-1952   US Senate Majority Leader, 2003-07
Robert F. Furchgott
Scientist
4-Jun-1916 19-May-2009 Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
D. Carleton Gajdusek
Scientist
9-Sep-1923 12-Dec-2008 Kuru (slow virus infections)
Galen
Doctor
129 AD c. 216 AD The medical authority for over 1000 years
Franz Joseph Gall
Doctor
9-Mar-1758 22-Aug-1828 Invented phrenology
Robert C. Gallo
Doctor
23-Mar-1937   Identified first retroviruses in humans
Luigi Galvani
Doctor
9-Sep-1737 4-Dec-1798 Explored bioelectical phenomena
Silvester Gardiner
Doctor
29-Jun-1708 8-Aug-1786 Colonial American pharmacist
Herbert S. Gasser
Scientist
5-Jul-1888 11-May-1963 Nerve conduction
James R. Gavin III
Doctor
c. 1945   Morehouse School of Medicine
Julie Gerberding
Doctor
22-Aug-1955   Director, Centers for Disease Control, 2002-09
John H. Gibbon, Jr.
Doctor
29-Sep-1903 5-Feb-1973 Open-heart surgery
William Gilbert
Physicist
24-May-1544 10-Dec-1603 De Magnete
Alfred G. Gilman
Scientist
1-Jul-1941   G-protein cell signal transmission
Alan B. Glassberg
Doctor
c. 1937   Oncology Professor, UCSF, 1970-2006
Lee Goldman
Doctor
6-Jan-1948   Goldman Index for cardiac risk
Joseph L. Goldstein
Scientist
18-Apr-1940   Hypercholesterolemia and cell metabolism
Camillo Golgi
Scientist
7-Jul-1843 21-Jan-1926 Structure of the nervous system
Benjamin F. Goodrich
Business
4-Nov-1841 3-Aug-1888 Founder of Goodrich Corporation
William C. Gorgas
Doctor
3-Oct-1854 3-Jul-1920 Malaria and yellow fever
John Gorrie
Inventor
3-Oct-1803 29-Jun-1855 Invented air conditioning
Ragnar Granit
Scientist
30-Oct-1900 31-Mar-1990 Physiology of the retina
Joseph Mortimer Granville
Doctor
1833 1900 Electric vibrator
Pedro José Greer, Jr.
Doctor
15-Jun-1956   Gastroenterologist, RAND Trustee
Roger Guillemin
Scientist
11-Jan-1924   Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
Allvar Gullstrand
Doctor
5-Jun-1862 28-Jul-1930 Ophthalmologist, refraction of light in the eye
Sanjay Gupta
TV Personality
23-Oct-1969   CNN's resident neurosurgeon
Samuel Guthrie
Doctor
1782 19-Oct-1848 Discovered chloroform
David Hager
Doctor
c. 1946   Gynecologist, conservative activist
Samuel Hahnemann
Doctor
10-Apr-1755 2-Jul-1843 Founder of homeopathy
John Scott Haldane
Doctor
3-May-1860 14-Mar-1936 Breathing regulated by CO2
Marshall Hall
Doctor
18-Feb-1790 11-Aug-1857 Theory of reflex action
Albrecht von Haller
Doctor
16-Oct-1708 12-Dec-1777 Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
William Stewart Halsted
Doctor
23-Sep-1852 7-Sep-1922 Pioneer of sterile surgical technique
Haldan K. Hartline
Scientist
22-Dec-1903 17-Mar-1983 Physiology of the retina
William Harvey
Doctor
1-Apr-1578 3-Jun-1657 Discovered circulation of blood
Harald zur Hausen
Scientist
11-Mar-1936   Papilloma virus
Bernadine P. Healy
Doctor
4-Aug-1944 6-Aug-2011 President, American Red Cross, 1999-2001
Norman G. Heatley
Scientist
10-Jan-1911 5-Jan-2004 Isolated penicillin
Henry Heimlich
Doctor
3-Feb-1920   Heimlich maneuver
Philip S. Hench
Scientist
28-Feb-1896 30-Mar-1965 Adrenocortical hormones
Jane E. Henney
Doctor
c. 1947   FDA Commissioner, 1998-2001
Avram Hershko
Scientist
31-Dec-1937   Ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
Walter Hess
Scientist
17-Mar-1881 12-Aug-1973 Brain mapping, neurophysiological methods
Stuart Heydt
Doctor
c. 1940   CEO of Geisinger Health System, 1991-2000
Hippocrates
Doctor
c. 460 BC c. 377 BC Father of Medicine
David Ho
Doctor
3-Nov-1952   AIDS researcher
Steven Hoefflin
Doctor
7-Feb-1946   Michael Jackson's former plastic surgeon
Doc Holliday
Doctor
14-Aug-1851 8-Nov-1887 Wyatt Earp's reliable friend
Frederick Hopkins
Scientist
20-Jun-1861 16-May-1947 Discovered vitamins
Bernardo Houssay
Scientist
10-Apr-1887 21-Sep-1971 Pituitary hormones in sugar metabolism
David H. Hubel
Scientist
27-Feb-1926   Neurophysiology of vision
Charles B. Huggins
Scientist
22-Sep-1901 12-Jan-1997 Hormonal treatment of prostate and breast cancers
John Hunter
Doctor
13-Feb-1728 16-Oct-1793 English pathologist
William Hunter
Doctor
23-May-1718 30-Mar-1783 English anatomist and obstetrician
Imhotep
Architect
c. 3000 BC c. 2950 BC Commoner who became a God
J. Hughlings Jackson
Doctor
4-Apr-1835 7-Oct-1911 Father of British neurology
François Jacob
Scientist
17-Jun-1920   Operon theory of genetic control
Harry R. Jacobson
Doctor
c. 1947   Vice Chancellor for Health at Vanderbilt
Robert Jarvik
Doctor
11-May-1946   Co-Inventor, Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Edward Jenner
Doctor
17-May-1749 26-Jan-1823 Smallpox Vaccination
William Norris Jennings
Doctor
c. 1943   Jewish Hospital and St. Mary's Healthcare
Niels K. Jerne
Scientist
23-Dec-1911 7-Oct-1994 Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Michael M. E. Johns
Educator
c. 1941   Chancellor, Emory University
Steve Kagen
Politician
12-Dec-1949   Congressman from Wisconsin, 2007-11
Eric R. Kandel
Scientist
7-Nov-1929   Signal transduction in the nervous system
Bernard Katz
Scientist
26-Mar-1911 20-Apr-2003 Neurotransmitters and the pineal gland
William N. Kelley
Doctor
23-Jun-1939   Kelley-Seegmiller Syndrome
John Harvey Kellogg
Doctor
26-Feb-1852 14-Dec-1943 Battle Creek Sanitarium
Jack Kevorkian
Doctor
26-May-1928 3-Jun-2011 Euthanasia enthusiast
Harvey Klein
Doctor
c. 1937   Cornell University Medical College
Charles Knowlton
Doctor
10-May-1800 20-Feb-1850 Early advocate of birth control
Robert Koch
Doctor
11-Dec-1843 27-May-1910 Germ theory of disease
Theodor Kocher
Doctor
25-Aug-1841 27-Jul-1917 Thyroid surgeon
Willem Johan Kolff
Scientist
14-Feb-1911 11-Feb-2009 Artificial kidney, artificial heart
Arthur Kornberg
Scientist
3-Mar-1918 26-Oct-2007 Synthesized DNA
Albrecht Kossel
Scientist
16-Sep-1853 5-Jul-1927 Chemistry of tissues and cells
Edwin G. Krebs
Scientist
6-Jun-1918 21-Dec-2009 Protein phosphorylation
René Laënnec
Doctor
17-Feb-1781 13-Aug-1826 Stethoscope
Karl Landsteiner
Scientist
14-Jun-1868 26-Jun-1943 Discovered blood typing
Alphonse Laveran
Doctor
18-Jun-1845 18-May-1922 Found the parasite that causes malaria
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey
Doctor
1954   Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jeffrey M. Leiden
Doctor
c. 1953   Clarus Ventures
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Scientist
22-Apr-1909   Nerve and skin cell growth factors
Thomas Linacre
Doctor
c. 1460 20-Oct-1524 Established the Royal Academy of Physicians
Joseph Lister
Doctor
5-Apr-1827 10-Feb-1912 Pioneer of antiseptic surgery
Jacques Loeb
Doctor
7-Apr-1859 11-Feb-1924 Investigator of artificial parthenogenesis
Otto Loewi
Scientist
3-Jun-1873 25-Dec-1961 Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter
Karl Lohmann
Chemist
10-Apr-1898 22-Apr-1978 Discovered ATP
Floyd D. Loop
Doctor
c. 1936   Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Bernard Lown
Doctor
7-Jun-1921   Inventor of defibrillator, peace activist
André Lwoff
Scientist
8-May-1902 30-Sep-1994 Operon theory of genetic control
Adel A. Mahmoud
Doctor
c. 1942   Molecular Biology Professor at Princeton
Moses Maimonides
Religion
30-Mar-1135 13-Dec-1204 Codified Jewish law
Marcello Malpighi
Doctor
10-Mar-1628 30-Nov-1694 Early microscopic anatomist
Jean-Paul Marat
Activist
24-May-1743 13-Jul-1793 French revolutionary
Barry J. Marshall
Doctor
30-Sep-1951   H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers
Joseph B. Martin
Doctor
1938   Dean, Harvard Medical School, 1997-2007
John E. Maupin, Jr.
Doctor
c. 1946   President, Morehouse School of Medicine
Charles Horace Mayo
Doctor
19-Jul-1865 26-May-1939 Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic
William James Mayo
Doctor
29-Jun-1861 28-Jul-1939 Co-Founder of the Mayo Clinic
Mark McClellan
Government
26-Jun-1963   Medicare Chief
Ephraim McDowell
Doctor
11-Nov-1771 25-Jun-1830 Performed the first ovariotomy
Edward Mellanby
Doctor
8-Apr-1884 30-Jan-1955 Rickets
Josef Mengele
Doctor
16-Mar-1911 7-Feb-1979 The Angel of Death
Otto Meyerhof
Scientist
12-Apr-1884 6-Oct-1951 Glycogen-lactic acid cycle
Oskar Minkowski
Doctor
13-Jan-1858 18-Jul-1931 Linked pancreas to diabetes
George R. Minot
Doctor
2-Dec-1885 25-Feb-1950 Liver therapy for pernicious anemia
S. Weir Mitchell
Novelist
15-Feb-1829 4-Jan-1914 The Case of George Dedlow
Egas Moniz
Scientist
29-Nov-1874 13-Dec-1955 Pre-frontal lobotomy and cerebral arteriography
Luc Montagnier
Scientist
18-Aug-1932   Co-Discoverer of HIV
Henry Morgentaler
Doctor
19-Mar-1923   Abortion rights in Canada
Kenneth P. Moritsugu
Doctor
5-Mar-1945   US Surgeon General, 2006-07
Samuel Mudd
Doctor
20-Dec-1833 10-Jan-1883 Physician who treated Lincoln's assassin
Ferid Murad
Scientist
14-Sep-1936   Nitric oxide as a cardiovascular signal
William P. Murphy
Scientist
6-Feb-1892 9-Oct-1987 Liver therapy for pernicious anemia
Conrad Murray
Doctor
19-Feb-1953   Michael Jackson's personal physician
Joseph E. Murray
Doctor
1-Apr-1919   Kidney transplants
Thomas D. Mutter
Doctor
9-Mar-1811 16-Mar-1859 Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr.
Doctor
14-Feb-1954   EVP at Wellpoint, 2000-05
Daniel Nathans
Scientist
30-Oct-1928 16-Nov-1999 Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
Bernard Nathanson
Activist
31-Jul-1926   Pro-life activist, former abortionist
Haing S. Ngor
Victim
22-Mar-1940 25-Feb-1996 The Killing Fields
Charles Nicolle
Scientist
21-Sep-1866 28-Feb-1936 Found that lice transmit typhus
Thomas T. Noguchi
Doctor
4-Jan-1927   Coroner to the Stars
Nostradamus
Paranormal
14-Dec-1503 1-Jul-1566 Notoriously ambiguous prophet
Antonia C. Novello
Doctor
23-Aug-1944   US Surgeon General, 1990-93
Severo Ochoa
Scientist
24-Sep-1905 1-Nov-1993 Synthesized RNA
William Osler
Doctor
12-Jul-1849 29-Dec-1919 Father of psychosomatic medicine
Humphry Osmond
Doctor
1-Jul-1917 6-Feb-2004 LSD proponent, turned on Aldous Huxley
O'Dell M. Owens
Doctor
c. 1947   Coroner of Hamilton County, Ohio
Mehmet Oz
Doctor
11-Jun-1960   Healing from the Heart
Sir James Paget
Doctor
11-Jan-1814 20-Dec-1899 Father of modern pathology
George E. Palade
Scientist
19-Nov-1912 7-Oct-2008 Microstructure of the cell
D. D. Palmer
Doctor
7-Mar-1845 20-Oct-1913 Founder of chiropractic medicine
George Papanicolaou
Scientist
13-May-1883 19-Feb-1962 Pap smear
Paracelsus
Chemist
11-Nov-1493 24-Sep-1541 Alchemist and doctor
Ambroise Paré
Doctor
1510 20-Dec-1590 Prominent 16th c. French surgeon
James Parkinson
Doctor
11-Apr-1755 21-Dec-1824 Essay on the Shaking Palsy
Ivan Pavlov
Scientist
14-Sep-1849 27-Feb-1936 Conditioned reflexes
Philip Syng Physick
Doctor
7-Jul-1768 15-Dec-1837 Father of American surgery
Philippe Pinel
Psychiatrist
20-Apr-1745 25-Oct-1826 Unchained the insane
Mary Lake Polan
Doctor
c. 1943   OG Professor at Stanford
Alvin F. Poussaint
Doctor
15-May-1934   Child-rearing expert
Deborah E. Powell
Doctor
1939   Dean of UMN Medical School
Fritz Pregl
Chemist
3-Sep-1869 13-Dec-1930 Microanalysis of organic compounds
Franklyn G. Prendergast
Doctor
7-Mar-1945   Mayo Clinic
Ann Preston
Doctor
1-Dec-1813 18-Apr-1872 Woman's Medical College and Woman's Hospital
Stanley B. Prusiner
Scientist
28-May-1942   Prions
Charles B. Purvis
Doctor
14-Apr-1842 14-Dec-1929 Pioneering African-American physician
Bessica Raiche
Aviator
Apr-1875 11-Apr-1932 Aviatrix and gynecologist
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Doctor
1-May-1852 17-Oct-1934 Structure of the nervous system
Prem Reddy
Doctor
1949   Prime Healthcare Services, Inc.
Wilhelm Reich
Scientist
24-Mar-1897 3-Nov-1957 Founder of Orgonomy
Dickinson W. Richards
Scientist
30-Oct-1895 23-Feb-1973 Cardiac catheterization
Royal Rife
Doctor
16-May-1888 11-Aug-1971 Beam Ray Machine destroys cancer
Barbara K. Rimer
Doctor
c. 1949   Dean, UNC School of Public Health
Frederick C. Robbins
Scientist
25-Aug-1916 4-Aug-2003 Cultured the polio virus
Peyton Rous
Scientist
5-Oct-1879 16-Feb-1970 Blood banks and carcinogenic viruses
Frank S. Royal
Doctor
c. 1939   Family practitioner, Richmond
Benjamin Rush
Politician
4-Jan-1746 19-Apr-1813 Signed Declaration of Independence
Oliver Sacks
Doctor
9-Jul-1933   Awakenings
Bert Sakmann
Scientist
12-Jun-1942   Cellular ion channels
Bengt I. Samuelsson
Scientist
21-May-1934   Prostaglandins
Béla Schick
Doctor
16-Jul-1877 6-Dec-1967 Schick test for diphtheria
Ignaz Semmelweis
Doctor
1-Jul-1818 13-Aug-1865 Pioneer of antiseptics
Michael Servetus
Religion
c. 1511 27-Oct-1553 De Trinitatis Erroribus
Anna Howard Shaw
Activist
14-Feb-1847 2-Jul-1919 National American Women's Suffrage Association
Charles Sherrington
Doctor
27-Nov-1857 4-Mar-1952 Neurons and synapses
Sir Robert Sibbald
Doctor
15-Apr-1641 Aug-1722 Scottish physician and antiquary
J. Marion Sims
Doctor
25-Jan-1813 13-Nov-1883 Father of gynecology
Jens C. Skou
Scientist
8-Oct-1918   ATPase researcher
Sir Hans Sloane
Curator
16-Apr-1660 11-Jan-1753 Milk chocolate and the British Museum
Hamilton O. Smith
Scientist
23-Aug-1931   Restriction enzymes (DNA cleavage)
Hugh C. Smith
Doctor
c. 1939   Mayo Clinic Rochester
Ralph Snyderman
Doctor
1940   CEO of Duke University Health System
Alfred Sommer
Doctor
1942   SPH Dean at Johns Hopkins, 1990-2005
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Business
1952   Founder, Abraxis BioScience
Benjamin Spock
Doctor
2-May-1903 15-Mar-1998 Baby and Child Care
Ralph M. Steinman
Biologist
14-Jan-1943 30-Sep-2011 Dendritic cells
Patrick Steptoe
Doctor
9-Jun-1913 21-Mar-1988 In vitro fertilization
Thomas P. Stossel
Doctor
c. 1941   Professor, Harvard Medical School
Earl W. Sutherland, Jr.
Scientist
19-Nov-1915 9-Mar-1974 Hormones mechanisms (cyclic AMP)
Thomas Sydenham
Doctor
13-Sep-1624 29-Dec-1689 The English Hippocrates
James Syme
Doctor
7-Nov-1799 26-Jun-1870 Leading Scottish surgeon
Helen B. Taussig
Doctor
24-May-1898 20-May-1986 Mother of pediatric cardiology
Hugo Theorell
Scientist
6-Jul-1903 15-Aug-1982 Oxidation enzymes
Samuel O. Thier
Doctor
23-Jun-1937   CEO of Massachusetts General, 1996-2002
E. Donnall Thomas
Scientist
15-Mar-1920   Bone marrow transplants
Lewis Thomas
Doctor
25-Nov-1913 3-Dec-1993 The Lives of a Cell
Craig B. Thompson
Doctor
c. 1952   Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
George Tiller
Doctor
8-Aug-1941 31-May-2009 Late-term abortionist
Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Doctor
30-Oct-1857 26-May-1904 Tourette's syndrome
Wylie Vale, Jr.
Doctor
3-Jul-1941 3-Jan-2012 Endocrinologist at Salk Institute
Harold E. Varmus
Scientist
18-Dec-1939   Genetic causes of cancer
Andreas Vesalius
Doctor
31-Dec-1514 Jun-1564 De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Rudolf Virchow
Doctor
13-Oct-1821 5-Sep-1902 Pathology and progressive politics
Andrew von Eschenbach
Government
30-Oct-1941   FDA Commissioner, 2005-09
Gunther von Hagens
Artist
10-Jan-1945   Popularized cadaver art
Andrew Wakefield
Doctor
1957   Bogus study linked vaccines and autism
Mary Edwards Walker
Doctor
26-Nov-1832 21-Feb-1919 First female US Army surgeon
Otto Warburg
Scientist
8-Oct-1883 1-Aug-1970 Effect of oxygen on cancer
J. Robin Warren
Doctor
11-Jun-1937   H. pylori bacteria causes ulcers
August von Wassermann
Biologist
21-Feb-1866 16-Mar-1925 Syphilis test
Thomas B. Welch
Business
31-Dec-1825 29-Dec-1903 Grape juice magnate
Thomas H. Weller
Scientist
15-Jun-1915 23-Aug-2008 Cultured the polio virus
J. Taylor Wharton
Doctor
c. 1938   Gynecological oncologist
George H. Whipple
Scientist
28-Aug-1878 2-Feb-1976 Bile, hemoglobin, and the liver
Johannes Wier
Doctor
1515 24-Feb-1588 First modern physician
Torsten N. Wiesel
Scientist
3-Jun-1924   Neurophysiology of vision
Robert Willan
Doctor
12-Nov-1757 17-Apr-1812 Dermatologist, On cutaneous diseases
Michael B. Wood
Doctor
c. 1944   CEO of the Mayo Foundation, 1999-2003
Thomas Young
Physicist
13-Jun-1773 10-May-1829 Wave Theory of Light
Mammen Zachariah
Doctor
c. 1948   Cardiologist
Zachariah P. Zachariah
Doctor
?   Cardiologist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Scientist
6-Jan-1944   T-cells and antigens
Hans Zinsser
Scientist
17-Nov-1878 4-Sep-1940 Typhus vaccine



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