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Born March 2, 1883 • Guildford • England
Died September 29, 1967 (aged 84) • England
Subjects Of Study Prontosil • burn • infection • puerperal fever • therapeutics
Fiona Wood, 2005.
Fiona Wood
Australian surgeon
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
United States statesman and physician
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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George Redmayne Murray
British physician
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot
American physician
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
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William P. Murphy
American physician
Thomas Willis, engraving by G. Vertue, 1742, after a portrait by D. Loggan, c. 1666
Thomas Willis
British physician
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Asclepiades Of Bithynia
Greek physician
Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
French physician
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David Bruce
British physician
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
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Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist and writer