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A surgeon is a physician who makes incisions in the body of a human to repair, remove, or replace a part of the body.
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| x 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 grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. His father,...
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| x 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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| x John Abernethy |
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John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 – 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon, grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy.
He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he...
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| x 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 and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Lister successfully...
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| x Sushruta |
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Sushruta was a surgeon and teacher of Ayurveda who flourished in the Indian city of Kashi by the 6th century BC. The medical treatise Sushruta Samhita—compiled in Vedic Sanskrit—is attributed to him. The Sushruta Samhita contains multiple detailed...
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| x William Jardine |
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Dr. William Jardine (24 February 1784 – 27 February 1843) was a ship surgeon who went into the agency trading and opium smuggling businesses in China, where he became a powerful merchant and was instrumental in starting the First Opium War.
Jardine...
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| x Walter Karl Koch |
Walter Karl Koch (3 May 1880 in Dortmund, Germany - 1962 ) was a German surgeon best known for the discovery of Koch's triangle, a triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart, and of Tawara's node, the atrioventricular node which is the...
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| x William Chester Minor |
William Chester Minor, also known as W. C. Minors (June 1834 – March 26, 1920) was an American surgeon who made many scholarly contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary while confined to a lunatic asylum.
Minor was born on the island of Ceylon ...
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| x Francis Davis Millet |
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Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet...
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| x George H. Tichenor |
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George Humphrey Tichenor (April 12, 1837 - January 14, 1923) was a Kentucky-born physician who introduced antiseptic surgery while in the service of the Confederate States of America. Thereafter, in private practice in Canton (Madison County),...
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| x John Hunter |
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John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The...
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| x James Barry |
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James Barry (c. 1792-1795 – 25 July 1865), was a military surgeon in the British Army. After graduation from the University of Edinburgh, Barry served in India and Cape Town, South Africa. By the end of his career, he had risen to the rank of...
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| x Percivall Pott |
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Percivall Pott (6 January 1714 – 22 December 1788) London, England) was an English surgeon, one of the founders of orthopedy, and the first scientist to demonstrate that a cancer may be caused by an environmental carcinogen.
He served his...
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| x Viking Bjork |
Viking Olov Björk (3 December 1918 – 18 February 2009) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon.
In 1968, he collaborated with American engineer Donald Shiley to develop the first "monostrut tilting disc valve" used to replace the aortic or mitral valve.
The...
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| x Mungo Park |
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Mungo Park (September 11, 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of the African continent. He was credited as being the first Westerner to encounter the Niger River.
Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire, Scotland at Foulshiels on the Yarrow Water, near...
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| x James Hinton |
James Hinton (26 November 1822 – 16 December 1875) was an English surgeon and author.
He was born at Reading, Berkshire, the son of John Howard Hinton (1791–1873), Baptist minister and author of the History and Topography of the United States and...
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| x Harold Gillies |
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Sir Harold Delf Gillies (17 June 1882 - 10 September 1960) was a New Zealand-born, and later London based, otolaryngologist who is widely considered as the father of plastic surgery.
Gillies was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. He studied medicine at...
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| x Harvey Cushing |
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Harvey Williams Cushing, M.D. (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the "father of modern neurosurgery"....
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| x Clarke Abel |
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Clarke Abel (c. 1780 – c. 24 November 1826) was a British surgeon and naturalist.
Abel accompanied Lord Amherst on his trip to China in 1816 as the expedition naturalist. As a result of this trip, he wrote and published a Narrative of a Journey in...
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| x Karl H. Pribram |
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Karl H. Pribram (born February 25, 1919 in Vienna, Austria) is a professor at Georgetown University , and an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram...
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| x Realdo Colombo |
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Matteo Realdo Colombo or Renaldus Columbus (c. 1516 - 1559) was an Italian professor of anatomy and a surgeon at the University of Padua between 1544 and 1559.
Colombo was born in Cremona, Lombardy to an apothecary named Antonio Colombo. Although...
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| x Alfred Cooper |
Sir Alfred Cooper (1838 – 3 March 1908) was a fashionable English surgeon and clubman of the late 19th century whose clients included Edward, Prince of Wales. He was born in Bracondale, Norfolk, England, the son of William Cooper, barrister, and his...
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| x Michael E. DeBakey |
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Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a world-renowned American cardiac surgeon, innovator, medical educator, and international medical statesman. DeBakey was the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in...
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| x John Holter |
John W. Holter (April 1, 1916 - December 22, 2003) was a toolmaker working for the Yale and Town Lock Company Stamford Connecticut. His son Charles Case "Casey" Holter was born on November 7, 1955 with a severe form of spina bifida. Shortly after...
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| x Wilder Penfield |
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Wilder Graves Penfield, OM, CC, CMG, FRS (January 25/26, 1891 – April 5, 1976) was an American born Canadian neurosurgeon. During his life he was called "the greatest living Canadian". He devoted much thinking to the functionings of the mind, and...
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| x Hugh of Lucca |
Hugh of Lucca and his son, Theodoric of Lucca, are noted for their use of wine as an antiseptic in the early 13th century.
Hugh of Lucca was appointed surgeon for Bologna in Italy in 1214 for a salary of 600 Bolognini per year. His contract required...
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| x Ferdinand Sauerbruch |
Ernst Ferdinand Sauerbruch (3 July 1875 – 2 July 1951) was a German surgeon.
Sauerbruch was born in Barmen (now a district of Wuppertal), Germany. He studied medicine at the Philipps University of Marburg, the University of Greifswald, the Friedrich...
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| x Edward Dunlop |
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Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ernest Edward "Weary" Dunlop, AC, CMG, OBE (12 July 1907 – 2 July 1993) was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership whilst being held prisoner by the Japanese during World War II.
Dunlop was born in...
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| x William Cheselden |
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William Cheselden (October 19, 1688 – April 10, 1752) was an English surgeon and teacher of anatomy and surgery, who was influential in establishing surgery as a scientific medical profession.
Cheselden was born at Somerby, Leicestershire. He...
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| x Benjamin Goodrich |
Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (November 4, 1841 – August 3, 1888) was an American industrialist in the rubber industry.
Dr. Goodrich was born to Anson and Susan Goodrich in Ripley, New York. He was educated as a physician; he received his M.D. from...
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| x John White |
John White (c. 1756 – 20 February 1832) was an English surgeon and botanical collector.
White was born in Sussex (some sources state he was born in 1750) and entered the Royal Navy on 26 June 1778 as third surgeon's mate. He was promoted surgeon in...
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| x Archibald McIndoe |
Sir Archibald McIndoe CBE FRCS (4 May 1900 - 11 April 1960) was a pioneering New Zealand plastic surgeon who worked for the Royal Air Force during World War II. He greatly improved the treatment and rehabilitation of badly burned aircrew.
Archibald...
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| x Denton Cooley |
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Denton Arthur Cooley (born August 22, 1920) is a pioneering American heart surgeon.
He is a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Tau Chapter and graduated in 1941 from the University of Texas, then began his medical education at the University of...
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| x Jacques Bernard Hombron |
Doctor Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798 – 1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Hombron served on the French voyage of the Astrolabe and Zelee between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of plants...
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| x Andrew Smith |
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Sir Andrew Smith KCB (December 3, 1797 – August 12, 1872) was a Scottish surgeon, naturalist, explorer and zoologist.
Smith was born in Hawick, Roxburghshire. He obtained a good education by diligence and hard work and qualified in medicine at...
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| x Ambroise Paré |
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Ambroise Paré (c. 1510 – 20 December 1590) was a French surgeon. He was the great official royal surgeon for the kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III and is considered as one of the fathers of surgery. He was a leader in surgical...
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| x John Richardson |
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Sir John Richardson (November 5, 1787 – June 5, 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.
Richardson was born at Dumfries. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University , and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807. He traveled...
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| x Sanjay Gupta |
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Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon and media personality on health-related issues based in Atlanta, Georgia. An assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the...
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| x Patrick Trevor-Roper |
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Patrick Trevor-Roper (7 June 1916 - 22 April 2004), British eye surgeon and pioneer gay rights activist, was one of the first people in the United Kingdom to "come out" as openly gay, and played a leading role in the campaign to repeal the UK's anti...
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| x Theodor Billroth |
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Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (26 April 1829 at Bergen auf Rügen in the Kingdom of Prussia. – 6 February 1894) was a German-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.
As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern...
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| x Charles Bell |
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Sir Charles Bell (Born November 1774, in Doun in Monteath, Edinburgh - Died 28 April 1842, in North Hallow, Worcestershire) was a Scottish anatomist, surgeon, physiologist and natural theologian. He was the younger brother of John Bell (1763-1820),...
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| x George Elliott |
George Elliott (cir 1636 – Tangier Garrison 1668 ) was the illegitimate son of Richard Eliot (b. cir 1614 – unknown), the wayward second son of Sir John Eliot, and Catherine Killigrew (1618 – 1689). George's grandson Granville Elliott spent...
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| x Andrew Taylor Still |
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Andrew Taylor Still (August 6, 1828 - December 12, 1917) is considered the father of osteopathy.
Still was born in Lee County, Virginia in 1828, the son of a Methodist minister and physician. At an early age, Still decided to follow in his father's...
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| x Jacques Joseph |
Jacques Joseph (September 6, 1865 -February 12, 1934) was a Jewish-German plastic surgeon.
Born Jakob Lewin Joseph in Königsberg, Prussia, he was the third child of Rabbi Israel Joseph and his wife Sara. He was an innovator in modern plastic surgery...
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| x Alfred Blalock |
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Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 – September 15, 1964) was a 20th-century American surgeon in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief...
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| x Sampson Gamgee |
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Dr Joseph Sampson Gamgee, MRCS, FRSE (17 April 1828, Livorno, Italy – 18 September 1886) was a surgeon at the Queen's Hospital (later the General Hospital) in Birmingham, England. He pioneered aseptic surgery (having once shared lodgings with Joseph...
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| x John Maynard Woodworth |
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John Maynard Woodworth (1837 – 1879) was an American physician and member of the Woodworth political family. He served as the first Supervising-Surgeon General, then changed to Surgeon General of the United States Marine Hospital Service from 1871...
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| x Samuel Prescott |
Samuel Prescott (August 19, 1751 – c. 1777) was a Massachusetts Patriot during the American Revolutionary War.
Dr. Samuel Prescott was born August 19, 1751. He appears to have enjoyed the privileges of growing up in the wholesome atmosphere of...
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| x Joseph Ransohoff |
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Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Ransohoff, II (July 1, 1915- January 30, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of neurosurgery. In addition to training numerous neurosurgeons, his "ingenuity in adapting advanced technologies" saved many lives and even influenced the...
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| x Guillaume Dupuytren |
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Guillaume Dupuytren, Baron (October 5, 1777 – February 8, 1835) was a French anatomist and military surgeon. Although he gained much esteem for treating Napoleon Bonaparte's hemorrhoids, he is best known today for Dupuytren's contracture which is...
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| x Mary Edwards Walker |
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Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.
Mary Walker was born in the Town of Oswego,...
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| x Sid Watkins |
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Eric Sidney Watkins OBE , FRCS (born September 6, 1928 ) is a world-renowned English neurosurgeon.
Watkins served twenty-six years as the FIA Formula One Safety and Medical Delegate, head of the Formula One on-track medical team, and first responder...
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| x George Suckley |
George Suckley (1830-1869) was an American physician and naturalist notable as an explorer of the Washington and Oregon territories in the 1850s, and describer of several new fish species.
He was born in New York City, and studied at the College of...
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| x John Lawrence LeConte |
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John Lawrence LeConte (May 13, 1825 - November 15, 1883) was the most important American entomologist of the 19th century, responsible for naming and describing approximately half of the insect taxa known in the United States during his lifetime,...
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| x Joseph Murray |
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Joseph Edward Murray (born 1 April 1919) is a retired American plastic surgeon. He performed the first successful human kidney transplant from an adult to his identical twin in 1954.
Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for...
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| x Andreas Gruentzig |
Andreas Roland Grüntzig (1939–October 27, 1985) was a German cardiologist who first developed successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries.
Grüntzig's first successful coronary angioplasty treatment on a human was...
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| x John Hulke |
John Whitaker Hulke FRCS FRS FGS (6 November 1830 – 19 February 1895) was a British surgeon, geologist and fossil collector. He was the son of a physician in Deal, who became a Huxleyite despite being deeply religious.
Hulke became Huxley's...
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| x Charles Kelman |
Charles D. Kelman (May 23, 1930 – June 1, 2004) was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in cataract surgery.
Kelman was born in Brooklyn, New York to David and Eva Kelman. He grew up in Queens where he attended Forest Hills High School. After...
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| x Victor Chang |
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Victor Peter Chang, AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991), was a Chinese Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation. Born in Shanghai to Australian-born Chinese parents, he grew up in Hong Kong before...
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| x Jules Germain François Maisonneuve |
Jules Germain François Maisonneuve (1809-1897) was a French surgeon and student of Guillaume Dupuytren. Maisonneuve is notable as the first surgeon to explain the role of external rotation in the production of ankle fractures. The eponymously named...
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