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François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
French physician
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Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
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George Redmayne Murray
British physician
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Robert Remak
German embryologist and neurologist
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
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George Richards Minot
American physician
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
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American physician
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Charles H. Best
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American pathologist
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