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Thomas Jefferson University
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Founded 1824 as Jefferson Medical College, became a university in 1969.
Location:
Philadelphia, PA
Founding Date:
1824 Enrollment:
2800 Official Website:
http://www.jefferson.edu/ STUDENTS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Gamaliel Bailey |
Journalist |
3-Dec-1807 |
5-Jun-1859 |
Anti-slavery publisher |
| Thomas Eakins |
Painter |
25-Jul-1844 |
25-Jun-1916 |
Realist painter, The Gross Clinic |
| Robert C. Gallo |
Doctor |
23-Mar-1937 |
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Identified first retroviruses in humans |
| John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
| Sheldon G. Gilgore |
Business |
13-Feb-1932 |
12-Feb-2010 |
CEO of Searle, 1986-95 |
| Charles Hires |
Business |
19-Aug-1851 |
31-Jul-1937 |
Root beer |
| Anson Jones |
Politician |
20-Jan-1798 |
9-Jan-1858 |
President of Texas, committed suicide |
| S. Weir Mitchell |
Novelist |
15-Feb-1829 |
4-Jan-1914 |
The Case of George Dedlow |
| J. Marion Sims |
Doctor |
25-Jan-1813 |
13-Nov-1883 |
Father of gynecology |
TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| John H. Gibbon, Jr. |
Doctor |
29-Sep-1903 |
5-Feb-1973 |
Open-heart surgery |
| Thomas D. Mutter |
Doctor |
9-Mar-1811 |
16-Mar-1859 |
Surgeon, Mütter Museum benefactor |
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