Physician
Also known as
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A physician is a person who practices some type of human biological medicine.
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| Alexis Carrel |
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Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 - November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Lyon, Carrel practiced in France and in the United...
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| Avicenna |
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(, Arabic:أبو علي الحسین بن عبدالله بن سینا); (born c. 980 in Bukhara, Khorasan,died 1037 in Hamedan), also known as Ibn Seena and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek ), was a
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| Ibn al-Haitham |
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or ( Latin: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 – 1039), was an Arab or Persian Muslim polymathwho made significant contributions to the principles of optics, as well as to anatomy, astronomy, engineering, mathematics, medicine, ophthalmology,...
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| Anton Chekhov |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ( – ) (, ) was a Russia short-story writer and playwright, considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in world literature. His playwriting career produced four classics: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters,...
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| Herman Boerhaave |
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Herman Boerhaave (Voorhout, December 31, 1668 - Leiden, September 23, 1738) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement...
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| Carolus Linnaeus |
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Carl Linnaeus (Carl Linné, Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , May 23 new style (13 May old style), 1707 – January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist who laid the foundations for the modern...
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| Charles Tupper |
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Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth...
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| Christiaan Barnard |
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
Barnard did his internship and residency at the Groote...
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| David Hayes Agnew |
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David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 - March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at...
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| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (June 9 1836 – December 17 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was the daughter of Newson Garrett, of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where...
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| George Whipple |
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George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and...
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| Galen |
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Galen (Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos; Latin: Claudius Galenus; AD 129 –ca. 200 or 216) of Pergamon was a prominent ancient Greek physician, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman period, whose theories dominated Western medical...
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| Gro Harlem Brundtland |
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(born Gro Harlem 20 April 1939, Oslo) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of...
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| Hippocrates |
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Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) - Greek: ; Hippokrátēs was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and was considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to...
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| Hans Selye | Person |
Hans Hugo Bruno Selye CC was a Canadian endocrinologist of Austro-Hungarian origin and Hungarian ethnicity. Selye did much important factual work on the hypothetical non-specific response of the organism to stressors. While he did not recognize all...
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| Robert Koch |
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (December 11 1843 – May 27 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's...
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| Imhotep |
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Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep, circa (1/4/2650–12/4/2600 BC) Egyptian meaning "the one who comes in peace") was an Egyptian polymath, who served under the Third Dynasty king, Djoser, as chancellor to the pharaoh and...
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| John Abercrombie | Person |
John Abercrombie (born October 10, 1780 in Aberdeen; died November 14, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher.
The son of the Reverend George Abercrombie of Aberdeen, he was educated at the Grammar School and Marischal College...
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| John Abernethy |
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Dr John Abernethy FRS (April 3, 1764 - April 20, 1831) was an English surgeon, grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy.
He was born in London, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to...
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| Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister |
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize...
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| Louis Pasteur |
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Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and prevention of disease. His experiments supported the germ theory of disease, also reducing...
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| Maimonides |
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Moses Maimonides (March 30 1135 Córdoba, Spain – December 13 1204 Fostat, Egypt), also known as the Rambam, was a rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was the preeminent medieval Jewish...
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| Prospero Alpini |
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Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Prosper Alpin) (November 23, 1553 - February 6, 1617), was an Italian physician and botanist.
Born at Marostica, in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in...
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| Sushruta | Surgeon |
Sushruta (also spelled Susruta or Sushrutha) (c. 6th century BC) was a renowned surgeon of ancient India, and the author of the book Sushruta Samhita. In his book, he described over 120 surgical instruments, 300 surgical procedures and classifies...
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| William Jardine |
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Dr. William Jardine (b. February 24, 1784-d. February 27, 1843) was a ship surgeon who went into the opium trading business in China, where he became a powerful merchant and was instrumental in starting the First Opium War.
William was born in 1784...
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| Karl Brandt |
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Karl Brandt (January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948) was selected the personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. As Major General Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation he...
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| Eudoxus of Cnidus | Person |
Eudoxus of Cnidus (Greek Εύδοξος) (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem...
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| Che Guevara |
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. After his death, his...
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| Gerhard Armauer Hansen |
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Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (July 29, 1841 – February 12, 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
Hansen was born in Bergen and studied...
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| Anton de Bary |
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Heinrich Anton de Bary (January 26, 1831 – January 19, 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology).
He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the...
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