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List of the most influential people in Medical,
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Robert Remak
1815 - 1865 (50 years)
Robert Remak was a Polish embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia, who discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells. as well as several other key discoveries.
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Gordon Alles
1901 - 1963 (62 years)
Gordon A. Alles , was an American chemist and pharmacologist who did extensive research on the isolation and properties of insulin for the treatment of diabetics. He is also credited with discovering and publishing the physiological effects of amphetamine and methylenedioxyamphetamine . He is the first person to have prepared amphetamine sulfate, although not the amphetamine molecule. Alles first reported the physiological properties of amphetamine as a synthetic analog of ephedrine, and therefore received credit for this discovery. He enjoyed large royalties from Smith, Kline & French because he sold his patent rights for amphetamine to the company and it enjoyed large sales.
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Paul Pulewka
1896 - 1989 (93 years)
Paul Pulewka was a German pharmacologist from Elbing . Pulewka graduated from the Königsberg Medical Faculty in 1923 and earned doctorates in pharmacology and toxicology from the Pharmacology Institute of the same university in 1927. Pulewka was appointed Docent at the University of Tübingen in 1929. In May 1933, he was promoted to Professor Extraordinarius of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Tübingen where he lectured on the toxicology of poisonous gases and the protection against them. He was elected to the university's Senate. However, Behrend Behrens, Pulewka's former assistant whom he and ...
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Rod Jackson
Rodney Thornton Jackson is a New Zealand medically trained epidemiologist who has had lead roles in publicly funded research focussing on systems to effectively identify risk factors in the epidemiology of chronic diseases, in particular cardiovascular diseases . This involved linking large cohort studies to regional and national electronic health databases and enabling the generation of new risk-prevention equations using web-based tools, such as the PREDICT model, to implement, monitor and improve risk assessment and management guidelines. Research on asthma in which Jackson participated in...
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Margaret Kelly
1906 - 1968 (62 years)
Margaret Georgia Kelly was an American pharmacologist specialized in the pharmacology of drugs used in cancer chemotherapy, carcinogenesis, and chemical protection against radiation and alkylating agents. Kelly was a senior investigator in the National Cancer Institute's laboratory of chemical pharmacology.
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Philipp Schwartz
1894 - 1977 (83 years)
Philipp Schwartz was a Hungarian-born neuropathologist. In the interwar period he was a professor in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a major figure in the community of German émigré scientists after 1933 and founded the .
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Heinrich Adolf Gottron
1890 - 1974 (84 years)
Heinrich Adolf Gottron was a German dermatologist remembered for Gottron's papules and Gottron's syndrome. He also edited Joseph Jadassohn's Handbook of Skin and Venereal Diseases. External links
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Walter J. Dilling
1886 - 1950 (64 years)
Walter James Dilling was a Scottish pharmacologist and physiologist. Life His father was William Dilling. Dilling was married and had children. Scientific career In 1907 Dilling gained the M.B. , and he was a Phillips Scholar. Walter James Dilling, who has been Lecturer in Pharmacology in the University since 1910, has been appointed to the Dr. Robert Pollok Lectureship in Materia Medica and Pharmacology in Glasgow University. Dr. Dilling, after graduating, was for a year junior assistant in physiology. He then proceeded to Germany as Carnegie Scholar and Fellow, and studied and taught at the University of Rostock under Dr.
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Edith Bülbring
1903 - 1990 (87 years)
Edith Bülbring, FRS was a British scientist in the field of smooth muscle physiology, one of the first women accepted to the Royal Society as a fellow . She was professor of pharmacology at the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, later emeritus professor .
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Thomas Wingate Todd
1885 - 1938 (53 years)
Thomas Wingate Todd was an English orthodontist who is known for his contributions towards the growth studies of children during early 1900s. Due to his efforts, Charles Bingham Bolton Fund was established. He served as editor in chief of several journals over his lifetime.
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Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.
1915 - 1974 (59 years)
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. was an American pharmacologist and biochemist born in Burlingame, Kansas. Sutherland won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1971 "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones", especially epinephrine, via second messengers, namely cyclic adenosine monophosphate, or cyclic AMP.
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Ugo Cerletti
1877 - 1963 (86 years)
Ugo Cerletti was an Italian neurologist who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy used in psychiatry. Electroconvulsive therapy is a therapy in which electric current is used to provoke a seizure for a short duration. This therapy is used in an attempt to treat certain mental disorders, and may be useful when other possible treatments have not, or cannot, cure the person of their mental disorder.
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Charles A. Hufnagel
1916 - 1989 (73 years)
Charles A. Hufnagel, M.D. was an American surgeon who invented the first artificial heart valve in the early 1950s. Hufnagel was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and reared in Richmond, Indiana. His father was also a surgeon. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, he began work on the heart and other organ transplants and explored the use of plastic to replace blood vessels, developing a technique called multi-point fixation, which would have great importance in the placement of the artificial aort...
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Raymond Begg
1898 - 1983 (85 years)
Percival Raymond Begg AO was a professor at the University of Adelaide School of Dentistry and a well known orthodontist, famous for developing the "Begg technique". Permanent displays dedicated to the Begg technique can be found in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Library of the American Dental Association in Chicago, and the PR Begg Museum at the University of Adelaide.
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Frederick B. Moorehead
1875 - 1944 (69 years)
Frederick Brown Moorehead was an oral surgeon, and led a campaign for what is now the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry to become part of the University of Illinois. Frederick Moorehead was born in 1875 in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, son of James Walter Moorehead and Mary Jane Brown. He graduated from Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1899 and from Rush Medical College in 1905.
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C. E. S. Phillips
1871 - 1945 (74 years)
Major Charles Edmund Stanley Phillips OBE FIP FRSE was a 20th-century British physicist and radiologist. He was also a gifted amateur artist. One of the founders of the Institute of Physics in 1920, the Phillips Award is named in his honour.
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Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939 (83 years)
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
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Wolfgang Rosenthal
1882 - 1971 (89 years)
Wolfgang Rosenthal was a German oral surgeon. Until the mid-1930s, he also pursued a parallel career as a bass-baritone singer. After the destructive bombing of the in Leipzig it became necessary to identify the physical remains of Johann Sebastian Bach before they could be reburied at the Thomaskirche nearby: Rosenthal was able to combine his knowledge of anatomy with his insights into the physical effect of a lifetime of organ playing on a musician's legs to provide the necessary identification.
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Jean Alexandre Barré
1880 - 1967 (87 years)
Jean Alexandre Barré was a French neurologist who in 1916 worked on the identification of Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome, as well as Barré–Liéou syndrome. Biography First studies He studied medicine in Nantes, afterwards serving his internship in Paris, where he was influenced by Joseph Babinski . In 1912 he obtained his medical doctorate with a thesis on osteoarthropathy associated with tabes dorsalis.
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Fernando Ocaranza Carmona
1876 - 1965 (89 years)
Fernando Ocaranza Carmona was a Mexican surgeon, rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , and military in the rank of a Coronel . Ocaranza, son of Ramón Ocaranza and his wife Antonia Carmona, visited the Instituto Científico y Literario de Toluca, studied at the Escuela Práctica Médico Militar, and graduated at the Escuela Nacional de Medicina. Reportedly he passed his practical training in the Guaymas Municipal Hospital, in the Hospital de la Cruz Roja , in the military hospital and in the General Hospital in Mexico City. In 1901 he married Loreto Esquer, who gave birth to the...
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Muriel Bell
1898 - 1974 (76 years)
Muriel Emma Bell was a New Zealand nutritionist and medical researcher. Early life Bell was born in Murchison, New Zealand on 4 January 1898, the daughter of Thomas, a farmer, and Eliza . Bell attended the local school in Murchison. In 1907, her mother was killed, and her father injured, in a tramcar accident in Wellington and her father consequently had to give up farming. He moved the family to Nelson and later became Mayor of Richmond.
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Asta von Mallinckrodt-Haupt
1896 - 1960 (64 years)
Asta von Mallinckrodt-Haupt, also Malinkrodt, was a German dermatologist. She was the first female professor of dermatology in Germany. Life Von Mallinckrodt-Haupt, daughter of Stephan von Haupt, Councillor of the District Court, studied medicine in Berlin from 1915, passing her state examination in 1921, followed by specialist training in dermatology at the Charité under Franz Blumenthal. In 1922, she received her doctorate for her dissertation "Beitrag zur Frage der Immimmitätserscheinungen bei Hyphomycetenerkrankungen" with Blumenthal in Berlin. Together with Blumenthal, she wrote the c...
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Jules François
1907 - 1984 (77 years)
Émile Jules Marie Joseph François was a Belgian ophthalmologist. Biography François received his medical degree at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1930 and specialized in ophthalmology and ophthalmic surgery. He went into private practice in ophthalmology in Charleroi. He remained active there as a scientific researcher and in 1942 became a professor at Ghent University and the director of Ghent University's eye clinic.
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Hans Gustav Wilhelm Steinert
1875 - 1911 (36 years)
Hans Gustav Wilhelm Steinert was a German neurologist best known for publishing the first description of myotonic dystrophy. Early life and career Steinert was born in Dresden to Otto Steinert, a lawyer, and his wife Louise. From 1893 Steinert studied philosophy and medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Freiburg, Berlin and Kiel, qualifying as a doctor in 1898.
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Derek Denny-Brown
1901 - 1981 (80 years)
Derek Ernest Denny-Brown OBE was a New Zealand-born neurologist. Working in Oxford, London and Boston, he made major contributions to the field of neurology, such as the development of electromyography, physiology of micturition and the treatment of Wilson's disease.
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Ernst Remak
1849 - 1911 (62 years)
Ernst Julius Remak was a German neurologist who was the son of famed neurologist Robert Remak and the father of the mathematician Robert Remak . He received his education at the Universities of Breslau, Berlin, Würzburg, Strasbourg and Heidelberg, and obtained the degree of M.D. in 1870. At Heidelberg, he was a student of neurologist Wilhelm Heinrich Erb . Afterwards he took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. After serving as assistant in the department for nervous diseases at the Charité Hospital, Berlin from 1873 to 1875, he established himself as a neurologist in the German capit...
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Christopher John Bulpitt
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Wylie J. Dodds
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Adolf Strümpell
1853 - 1925 (72 years)
Ernst Adolf Gustav Gottfried Strümpell, from 1893 von Strümpell , was a Baltic German neurologist. Life Strümpell was born in Neu-Autz, Courland , the son of the philosopher Ludwig Strümpell . After study in Dorpat and Leipzig, in 1875 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Leipzig, where he had as instructors Carl Wunderlich , Karl Thiersch and Carl Ludwig . In 1883 he was an associate professor at Leipzig, and from 1886 to 1903 was a full professor at the University of Erlangen, succeeding Wilhelm Olivier Leube as director of the medical clinic. Afterwards he was a profes...
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Robin Fåhræus
1888 - 1968 (80 years)
Robert Sanno Fåhræus, born 15 October 1888 in Stockholm, died 18 September 1968 in Lund, was a Swedish medical researcher noted for his contributions to hemorheology. Biography Fåhræus was the son of art historian Klas Fåhraeus and actress Olga Björkegren. He commenced studies at Karolinska Institute in 1908, where he received his medical license in 1922. Before that, in 1921, he had completed his research doctorate with the title The suspension-stability of the blood. He became associate professor of experimental pathology at the Karolinska Institute in 1922. He was professor of pathology at...
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L. M. Guttman Sokoloff
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Julius Pohl
1861 - 1942 (81 years)
Julius Pohl was an Austrian-German pharmacologist. From 1879 to 1883 he studied medicine at the German University in Prague, where afterwards he worked as an assistant to Franz Hofmeister in the pharmacology institute. In 1892 he received his habilitation for pharmacology and pharmacognosy, and three years later became an associate professor. In 1897 he succeeded Hofmeister as chair of pharmacology at the university. In 1911 he relocated to the University of Breslau as successor to Wilhelm Filehne. In 1926 he became a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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John Duncan
1839 - 1899 (60 years)
John Duncan, LLD FRCSEd FRSE was a Scottish surgeon best known for his surgical teaching at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Extramural School of Medicine. He was a pioneer of the use of electricity in surgery both for surgical cautery and for tumour necrosis. On the death of his father James Duncan in 1866 he became a director of the major drug manufacturer Duncan Flockhart & Co, which had been founded by his grandfather, also John Duncan . He served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1889 to 1891.
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Bernhard Pollack
1865 - 1928 (63 years)
Bernhard Pollack was a German neuroanatomist and ophthalmologist practicing in Berlin. He held the post of Professor of Ophthalmology at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. In addition to medical practice, he was a student of Moritz Moszkowski and a renowned pianist, having performed with Fritz Kreisler and with the violinist Joseph Szigeti.
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Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf
1824 - 1868 (44 years)
Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf was a German surgeon. He studied medicine at the universities of Breslau and Berlin, receiving his medical doctorate in 1846. As a student, his instructors included Jan Evangelista Purkyně, Johannes Peter Müller and Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach. Following graduation, he worked as assistant under Purkyně at Breslau for a year, then embarked on a study trip to Vienna and Paris. In 1853 he became an associate professor of surgery and ophthalmology at Breslau, and soon afterwards, was named head surgeon of the Allerheiligen-Hospital. In 1856 he became a full professor and director of the surgical-ophthalmologic clinic.
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Frank Lynn Iber
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Peter Allebeck
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Ken W. M.d. Heaton
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Anton Gordonoff
1893 - 1966 (73 years)
Anton Gordonoff was a Swiss pharmacologist and toxicologist of Russian origin. Gordonoff studied pharmacology at the Universities of Bern and Nancy and finished his studies in 1921. In 1926 he received his habilitation from the University of Bern. Later the same university appointed him a professor of pharmacology and toxicology; he headed the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine and was also a member of the Swiss Commission on Medicine and Drugs and of the Swiss Association for Clinical Neurophysiology.
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John Cabot
1450 - 1498 (48 years)
John Cabot was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. To mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments declared Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed.
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Henry Miller
1913 - 1976 (63 years)
Henry George Miller was Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University. Career Miller was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and studied medicine at Newcastle College of Medicine, now part of Newcastle University, from 1931 to 1937. Whilst there he served as secretary and president of the students' union. He spent time working at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, before serving in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
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Myron Duker Jay S. Yanoff
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Erhard Riecke
1869 - 1939 (70 years)
Rudolf Erhard Riecke was a German dermatologist and venereologist. He studied medicine at the universities of Munich and Halle, receiving his doctorate in 1895. In 1902 he obtained his habilitation for dermatology at the University of Leipzig, and in 1908 became an associate professor. From 1914 onward, he was a professor of dermatology at the University of Göttingen, where in 1932 he was named academic rector. In 1917 he was appointed director of the new university policlinic for skin and venereal diseases.
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Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen
1882 - 1975 (93 years)
Ragnvald Ingebrigtsen was a Norwegian physician who is regarded a pioneer in the development of surgery in Norway. He was born in Hammerfest, and was married to actress Gerd Egede-Nissen from 1922 to 1940, and to the sister of his first wife, Gøril Havrevold, from 1962. He graduated as cand.med. in 1907, and worked as a physician in Stavanger from 1908 to 1911. He then worked two years at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City, where he studied neurosurgery, and further studied bacteriology and histology in Paris. He was appointed professor in surgery at the University of Oslo from 1928. ...
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Edwin Bramwell
1873 - 1952 (79 years)
Edwin Bramwell FRSE FRCPE was a Scottish neurologist. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1933 to 1935. Life He was born in North Shields on 11 January 1873 the son of Martha and Sir Byrom Bramwell. He was educated at Cheltenham College. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MB ChB in 1896.
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Gil Yosipovitch
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Sheldon H. Preskorn
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Hermann Löhlein
1847 - 1910 (63 years)
Christian Adolf Hermann Löhlein was a German obstetrician and gynecologist. In 1870, he obtained his medical doctorate following studies at the universities of Jena and Berlin. Afterwards he spent several years at Berlin as an assistant in the clinic of Eduard Arnold Martin . From 1875 to 1888, he was a lecturer in obstetrics and gynecology in Berlin, followed by a professorship at the University of Giessen. Here he was successor to Max Hofmeier as chair of OB/GYN, becoming university rector in 1898. At Giessen he was also editor of the Gynäkologische Tagesfragen .
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Kenneth L. Melmon
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