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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
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Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist
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William Farr
British physician
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Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
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Zsuzsanna Jakab
Hungarian epidemiologist
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Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
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Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Sydenham, detail of an oil painting by Mary Beale, 1688; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Sydenham
British physician
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Thomas Francis, Jr.
American microbiologist
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Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
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Hans Zinsser
American bacteriologist and epidemiologist
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Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau
French physician