Pioneers Of Medicine
27 entries in the Pioneers Of Medicine compendium.
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Howard Atwood KellyAmerican gynecologist and one of the 'Big Four' founding professors of the Johns Hopkins SHoward FloreyAustralian pharmacologist who turned penicillin into a life-saving drug.Hua TuoChinese surgeon who pioneered general anesthesia with mafeisan.Hubertus StrugholdPioneer of space medicine whose legacy was damaged by evidence of Nazi human experimentatiHunayn ibn IshaqAbbasid translator and physician who advanced the translation of Greek medical works.Ian WilmutLed the first cloning of a mammal from an adult cell.Ibn al-NafisArab polymath who first described pulmonary circulation.Ignaz SemmelweisHungarian doctor who proved hand washing reduced childbed fever.J. Marion SimsPioneering surgeon whose methods remain ethically controversial.James LindScottish physician who pioneered the clinical trial for scurvy.Jan Evangelista PurkyněCzech anatomist and physiologist who coined 'protoplasma' and discovered Purkinje cells.Jean-Martin CharcotFrench neurologist who founded modern neurology and studied hysteria.Jean-Jacques Muyembe-TamfumCongolese microbiologist who helped discover Ebola and developed a treatment.Jennifer DoudnaAmerican biochemist who co-developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing.John Harvey KelloggPhysician, inventor, and advocate of health reform and eugenics.John Hunter (surgeon)Scottish surgeon who advanced medicine through observation and anatomy.Jonas SalkAmerican virologist who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines.Jérôme LejeuneFrench pediatrician and geneticist who discovered the chromosomal basis of Down syndrome.JīvakaPersonal physician of the Buddha and King Bimbisāra.Karl LandsteinerAustrian-American immunologist who classified blood groups and discovered the Rhesus factoKatalin KarikóBiochemist whose work enabled mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.Kitasato ShibasaburōJapanese bacteriologist who co-discovered the plague bacillus.Lazzaro SpallanzaniItalian priest and biologist who advanced reproduction and echolocation studies.Leland H. HartwellNobel laureate who discovered cell cycle control genes in yeast.Li ShizhenMing dynasty physician and author of the Compendium of Materia Medica.Li WenliangOphthalmologist who warned colleagues about early COVID-19 cases.Linda B. BuckAmerican biologist who discovered olfactory receptors.
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