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#4251

Hermann Zingerle

Hermann Zingerle

1870 - 1935 (65 years)

Hermann Zingerle was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist born in Trento. In 1894 he earned his medical degree from the University of Innsbruck, becoming an assistant at the University of Graz during the following year. In 1899 he received his habilitation for psychiatry and neuropathology, and from 1909 to 1926 was an associate professor at Graz.

#4252

Henry Piffard

1842 - 1910 (68 years)

Henry Granger Piffard was author of the first systematic treatise on dermatology in America. He is heralded as one of the founders of dermatology in the U.S., having founded the Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, which later became JAMA Dermatology. He invented the dermal curette, was the first to use x-ray to treat skin diseases and was a pioneer of flash photography in medicine.

#4253

Richard L. Gamelli

#4254

Harvey J. Howard

1880 - 1956 (76 years)

Harvey James Howard was an American ophthalmologist. He was notable for:Serving as head of the Ophthalmology Department at the University Medical School, Canton Christian College in China between 1910 and 1915.Inventing the Howard-Dolman apparatus for measuring the accuracy of perception of distance while serving as a captain in the US Army during World War I.Serving as head of the Department of Ophthalmology at Peking Union Medical College between 1917 and 1927.Serving as ophthalmologist to Pu Yi, the boy emperor in the Forbidden City, between 1921 and 1925.Being kidnapped, with his son, by ...

#4255

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther

1812 - 1871 (59 years)

Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther was a German pathologist and ophthalmologist who was a native of Offenbach am Main. From 1848–1867, he was an associate professor of general pathology and therapy at the University of Giessen, where, from 1867 to 1871, he served as the first full professor of pathological anatomy and therapy. After his death in 1871, his position at Giessen was filled by Theodor Langhans .

#4256

Berta Ottenstein

1891 - 1956 (65 years)

Berta Ottenstein was a German dermatologist who was the first woman to obtain her habilitation at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and the first woman in Germany to habilitate in dermatology. Life Ottenstein, the youngest of six children born into a Nuremberg merchant family, studied at the University of Erlangen, where she received her doctorate in chemistry in 1914. After a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry in Berlin-Dahlem , she moved to the University of Freiburg in 1928, where she received an assistant post. As early as 1930, her superior, hospital director ...

#4257

James G. Marks

#4258

Vladimir Barykin

1879 - 1939 (60 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was a Russian microbiologist and epidemiologist. Biography Vladimir Aleksandrovich Barykin was born on 22 November 1879 in Oryol Governorate. He graduated from the Kazan Imperial University in 1900.

#4259

Georg Schaltenbrand

1897 - 1979 (82 years)

Georges Schaltenbrand was a German neurologist known for his work on the organization and diagnostics of the motor system, to the physiology and pathology of the cerebrospinal fluid, and to multiple sclerosis. He coauthored an influential textbook and atlas on stereotaxy and he also published some unethical experiments performed in Nazi Germany.

#4260

Per-olof J. Hasselgren

#4261

Flora E. Van Leeuwen

#4262

David Lees

1881 - 1934 (53 years)

David Lees was a Scottish expert in public health and author of the authoritative work Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Disease. Life He was born in 1881, the son of Agnes Drennan and her husband, Robert Lees a vet from Lagg] in Ayrshire. He is thought to have been a cousin to Alexander Murray Drennan. He was educated at Ayr Academy. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MB ChB around 1902. He then undertook a Diploma in Public Health at postgraduate level. On completion he began lecturing in venereal disease at the University. He also advised on venereal...

#4263

Arne Melander

#4264

Lawrence Charles Parish

#4265

Walter Carr

1862 - 1942 (80 years)

John Walter Carr was an English physician and surgeon. Carr was the son of John Carr of London. He was educated at University College School and trained as a doctor at University College Hospital, graduating Bachelor of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine . He later became consulting physician to the Royal Free Hospital and the Victoria Hospital for Children and lecturer in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women.

#4266

Holger Haxthausen

1892 - 1959 (67 years)

Holger Haxthausen was professor of dermatology at the University of Copenhagen. He took up the position in 1931 in succession to Carl Rasch.

#4267

E. Marilyn Schaeffer

#4268

Alan John Flisher

#4269

Ilo E. Leppik

#4270

Beatrice Edna Tucker

1898 - 1984 (86 years)

Beatrice Edna Tucker was an American obstetrician and gynecologist. Tucker was the medical director of the Chicago Maternity Center for over forty years, providing access to home births for poor people in Chicago. She also worked as an advocate for equitable access to reproductive healthcare, lobbying for legalized abortion and access to birth control.

#4271

Alfred Hardy

1811 - 1893 (82 years)

Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy was a French dermatologist. In 1836 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1839 he became chef de clinique under Pierre Fouquier at the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1847 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital. In 1867 he succeeded Jules Béhier as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necke...

#4272

Pascal James Imperato

#4273

T. Jacob John

#4274

Petrus Adrianus Fre Doevendans

#4275

Károly Schaffer

Károly Schaffer

1864 - 1939 (75 years)

Károly Schaffer was a Hungarian anatomist and neurologist. He was born in Vienna. The axon projection from CA3 to CA1 neurons in hippocampus, Schaffer collateral, is named after him. He was involved in the early studies of Tay–Sachs disease.

#4276

Anthony J. Raimondi

#4277

Alfred Jefferis Turner

Alfred Jefferis Turner

1861 - 1947 (86 years)

Alfred Jefferis Turner was a pediatrician and amateur entomologist. He was the son of missionary Frederick Storrs-Turner. He introduced the use of diphtheria antitoxin to Australia in 1895. He resided in Dauphin Terrace, Highgate Hill, Brisbane, and was known by the nickname "Gentle Annie".

#4278

Carl Schiøtz

1877 - 1938 (61 years)

Carl Schiøtz was a Norwegian physician and professor of hygiene and bacteriology at the University of Oslo. Biography He was born in Hamar, Norway. His parents were Jonas Schanche Kielland Schiøtz and his wife Hanna Minda Constance Øvergaard. His brother was military officer Johannes Henrik Schiøtz . In 1906, he was married to Borghild Hannestad . After graduating in 1896 from Hamar Cathedral School, he became a cand.med. in 1904 at the University of Kristiana From 1907 to 1914 he worked at Nes in Ringsaker. He moved to Kristiania to work at the Rikshospitalet as a reserve doctor, university fellow and health inspector.

#4279

Thomas J. Walley

#4280

G.H. Monrad-Krohn

1884 - 1964 (80 years)

Georg Herman Monrad-Krohn , born in Bergen, Norway, is known for his work on the development of neurology early in the 20th century. He studied at the National Hospital, Queens Square in London, and often visited Paris, France to work in the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital facilities. In 1917 he returned to Norway, and began studies at the Neurological University Clinic of Oslo , where he was appointed a Professor in 1922. In 1927 he became Professor of Neurology at the University of Oslo, and later Emeritus Professor of Neurology.. He retired from this professorial chair at the age of 70. His son, the computer engineer and entrepreneur Lars Monrad-Krohn was born in 1933.

#4281

Stanley J. Goldsmith

#4282

Walter Mercer

1890 - 1971 (81 years)

Sir Walter Mercer KBE FRSE FRCSEd FRCPE LLD was a Scottish orthopaedic surgeon. He was President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 1951 to 1956. He was affectionately known as 'Wattie.' His collection of anatomical specimens was donated to Surgeon's Hall in Edinburgh, and is now known as the Walter Mercer Collection.

#4283

Vida Latham

1866 - 1958 (92 years)

Vida Annette Latham was a British-American dentist, physician, microscopist, and researcher, known for her work in publishing and her research on oral tumors, surgery, and anatomy. Early life and education Vida Latham was born in Lancashire in 1866 to a physician father. Her early education took place in Cambridge and Manchester. She earned her master's degree from the University of London in 1889; she published papers on tooth anatomy and pain in 1888 while working at a London dentist's office. She then moved to the United States because she could not practice in the UK with an American dentistry degree.

#4284

Anita K. Bahn

1920 - 1980 (60 years)

Anita Kaplan Bahn was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher. Education and career Bahn was originally from New York City. She left high school at the age of 15, and earned a bachelor's degree in biology four years later from Hunter College, together with a certification allowing her to teach high school biology. She would also go on to study "physics at New York City College; botany and bacteriology at Cornell University; mathematics and statistics at American University and at George Washington University", but without completing those programs to a graduate degr...

#4285

Arthur Schüller

1874 - 1957 (83 years)

Arthur Schüller was an Austrian medical doctor who served as professor at Vienna University and was the founder of the discipline of neuroradiology. He is credited with coining the term "Neuro-Röntgenologie" and he contributed particularly to three neurosurgical procedures; antero-cordotomy, cisternal hydrocephalic drainage and the transsphenoidal approach to pituitary tumours, and is associated with three bone diseases; the Hand–Schüller–Christian disease, osteoporosis circumscripta and cephalohaematoma deformans.

#4286

Gustav Biedermann Günther

Gustav Biedermann Günther

1801 - 1866 (65 years)

Gustav Biedermann Günther was a German surgeon and orthopedist. From 1818 to 1824, he studied medicine and surgery at the University of Leipzig, obtaining his doctorate with the thesis "Analecta ad anatomiam fungi medullari". While still a student, he embarked on a scientific journey with ornithologist Ludwig Thienemann to Norway and Iceland. In 1825 he began work as an assistant to Johann Karl Georg Fricke in the surgical department at the general hospital in Hamburg. In 1829 he settled as a general practitioner in Hamburg, where in 1831 he founded an orthopedic institute.

#4287

Alexander Ellinger

1870 - 1923 (53 years)

Alexander Ellinger was a German chemist and pharmacologist. From 1887 he studied chemistry at the University of Berlin under August Wilhelm von Hofmann and at the University of Bonn as a pupil of August Kekulé. Afterwards, he studied medicine at the University of Munich, followed by work as an assistant in the institute of pharmacology at the University of Strasbourg. In 1897 he became an assistant to Max Jaffé in the laboratory of medicinal chemistry and experimental pharmacology at the University of Königsberg. In 1914 he was appointed professor of pharmacology at the newly established Univ...

#4288

Andrew Fyfe

1792 - 1861 (69 years)

Professor Andrew Fyfe FRSE FRCSE PRSSA PRMS was a Scottish surgeon and chemist. Following early studies on Fox Talbot's newly created photographic techniques he was one of the first to work out the theory behind positive rather than negative prints. He had an amateur interest in photography but appears not to have pursued his own theories and limited his experiments to ferns lying on chemical papers.

#4289

V. Ishwaraiah

1898 - 1983 (85 years)

V. Ishwaraiah MBBS, MRCP, FRFPS was an eminent professor of Pharmacology in India. He received his M.R.C.P with Pharmacology as special subject and F.R.F.P.S . He worked as lecturer in Pharmacology, Andhra Medical College to succeed Dr. B. B. Dikshit . He was promoted as Professor in 1943. He was transferred to Madras as Professor of Pharmacology for both Madras Medical College and Stanley Medical College.

#4290

Anton Drasche

1826 - 1904 (78 years)

Anton Drasche was an Austrian internist and epidemiologist. Biography Drasche studied medicine in Prague, Vienna and Leipzig, earning his doctorate in 1853. In Vienna, his instructors included Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Carl von Rokitansky and Joseph Škoda. In 1858 he was habilitated for special pathology and therapy. and in 1872 was appointed physician-in-chief at the . On a recommendation from German hygienist Max Pettenkofer, he became an associate professor of epidemiology in 1874.

#4291

Margaret Arnstein

1904 - 1972 (68 years)

Margaret G. Arnstein was an American health expert who focused her efforts in nursing and public health. Throughout her life Arnstein worked for the United States public health sector and several American colleges, eventually becoming dean of the Yale School of Nursing in 1967. Arnstein also published multiple academic papers discussing nursing practices within the U.S health system of the time. Arnstein also participated in Congress discussions in relation to provisions given to the health sector by the state through the Second Supplemental Appropriation Bill of 1957. In her later career Mar...

#4292

Johnson Symington

Johnson Symington

1851 - 1924 (73 years)

Johnson Symington FRS FRSE FZS LLD was a British anatomist and zoologist. He was President of the Ulster Medical Society for 1896/7. He served as President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1904 to 1906. He is noted for his comparative studies of the brain of modern man and prehistoric man, and of man and other primates. From 1923 onwards Queen's University Belfast award a Symington Prize every year to junior anatomists in his honour.

#4293

Jurriaan ten Doesschate

1912 - 1977 (65 years)

Jurriaan ten Doesschate was a Dutch ophthalmologist and medical scientist, who specialized in physiological optics. Biography The son of ophthalmologist and art historian Gezienus ten Doesschate and of linguist Amelia Hermina Henrietta Kortebosch, he attended the Municipal Gymnasium in Utrecht before studying medicine in the same city .

#4294

Norman Purvis Walker

Norman Purvis Walker

1862 - 1942 (80 years)

Sir Norman Purvis Walker FRCPE was a Scottish dermatologist, and physician-in-charge of the Skin Department at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. He was also one of the first persons in Britain to benefit from the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes.

#4295

August Knoblauch

1863 - 1919 (56 years)

August Knoblauch was a German neurologist. He was a nephew of chemist August Kekulé. He studied medicine and sciences at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, Strasbourg and Heidelberg. In 1888 he received his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg, where he studied under neurologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb. In 1898 he was named head of the city infirmary in Frankfurt, then in 1914 was named director of the neurological clinic at the University of Frankfurt am Main.

#4296

Bernard G. Amend

1821 - 1911 (90 years)

Bernard G. Amend was a German-born pharmacist. He ran an important pharmacy and scientific supply business in New York, NY which was sold to Fisher Scientific in 1940. He is also known for contributing to the founding of the American Chemical Society and for his mineralogy collection.

#4297

Christopher Wren

#4298

Édouard Jeanselme

Édouard Jeanselme

1858 - 1935 (77 years)

Antoine Édouard Jeanselme was a French dermatologist, known for his research of syphilis and leprosy. He was the author of numerous works with history of medicine themes . In 1883 he began work as a hospital intern, receiving his medical doctorate in 1888. In 1898–1900 he conducted research of leprosy in French Indo-China, during which time, he also conducted studies of beriberi, framboesia, syphilis and variola. In 1901 he became an associate professor, and in 1919 attained the chair of chair of dermatology and syphilology at the faculty of medicine in Paris.

#4299

Rudi Cormane

1925 - 1987 (62 years)

Rudi Harold Cormane was a Dutch dermatologist who pioneered research in immunofluorescence studies of the skin. During the Second World War he was interned in a Japanese camp where he received an education from other prisoners. After the war he gained entry to the University of Leiden in the Netherlands to study medicine, but it was interrupted in 1947 when an epidemic of polio caused paralysis of his legs.

#4300

Han Qing-quan

1884 - 1921 (37 years)

Han Qingquan was a Chinese doctor, educator and pioneer of modern medical service and public health in China. Biography Han was born in Cixi City, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was Shi-hong . From 1899 to 1902, Han studied in Hangzhou, at Hangzhou Yang-Zheng School and later at the Middle School of Hangzhou Prefecture .

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