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Born November 1, 1815 • Georgia
Died June 16, 1878 (aged 62) • Athens • Georgia
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Walter Channing
American physician
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Ether anesthesia
William Thomas Green Morton
American surgeon
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
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Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
American physician and medical researcher
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
anesthesia
Gardner Quincy Colton
American anesthetist and inventor
Kellogg, John Harvey
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician and nutritionist
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George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Max Theiler
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
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André F. Cournand
American physiologist
Horace Wells
Horace Wells
American dentist
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Dickinson Woodruff Richards
American physiologist
anesthesia
Carl Koller
American surgeon
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
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René Laënnec
French physician
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Hua Tuo
Chinese physician and surgeon