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Also Known As Carlos Juan Finlay
Born December 3, 1833 • Camagüey • Cuba
Died August 20, 1915 (aged 81) • Havana • Cuba
Subjects Of Study mosquito • carrier • yellow fever

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John Snow
John Snow
British physician
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-born physician, pathologist, and bacteriologist
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Jesse William Lazear
American physician
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
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William Farr
British physician
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Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Dr. Dorry Segev wearing glasses and a dark suit with black shirt speaks on stage, gesturing with both hands.
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Portrait of Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
Sydenham, detail of an oil painting by Mary Beale, 1688; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Sydenham
British physician
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Baillou, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1580
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
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Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau
French physician
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David Bruce
British physician
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William B. Castle
American physician