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Born August 30, 1859 • Maryland
Died March 29, 1954 (aged 94) • Los Angeles • California
Subjects Of Study prenatal care
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Charles William Mayo
American physician
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Harry Benjamin
American endocrinologist and sexologist
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders
American physician and government official
Cleveland, Emeline Horton
Emeline Horton Cleveland
American physician
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Andrew V. Schally
Andrew V. Schally
American endocrinologist
Dr. Gregory Pincus
Gregory Pincus
American endocrinologist
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Walter Channing
American physician
Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.
Patrick Steptoe
British gynecologist
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
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Soranus Of Ephesus
Greek physician
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Peter Chamberlen, the Elder
French surgeon
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William B. Castle
American physician
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Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
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Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
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Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
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William Claire Menninger
American physician
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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
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William James Mayo
American physician