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Also Known As pathological physiology • pathophysiology

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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
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Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
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Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
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Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
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Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith
American pathologist
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Miroslav Holub
Czech poet, pathologist and immunologist
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Eugene Lindsay Opie
American pathologist
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Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
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Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Rokitansky, detail of an engraving
Karl, baron von Rokitansky
Austrian pathologist
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William Henry Welch
American physician
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
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William Prout
British chemist

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