Medicine

Discover renowned medical professionals who have made significant contributions to the field of medicine. Explore biographies of famous doctors, surgeons, scientists, and other notable figures who have revolutionized healthcare and inspired generations.

Viktor Serov
Viktor Serov
Russia
Laureate of the Russian Government Prize, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
Petr Kovalenko
Petr Kovalenko
Russia
Laureate of the USSR State Prize, Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Citizen of the City of Rostov-on-Don
John Haldane
John Haldane
Great Britain
Scottish physiologist
Hans Selye
Hans Selye
Canada
Canadian biologist, physiologist and psychologist. Formulated the concept of stress, introduced the concepts of adaptation syndrome, adaptation diseases, etc.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
USA
American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1937
Eduard Jenner
Eduard Jenner
Great Britain
English doctor who created the smallpox vaccine
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Great Britain
Nurse, organizer of the Nurses Award
Semen Pinskiy
Semen Pinskiy
Ukraine
Surgeon
Dennis Hoagland
Dennis Hoagland
USA
American physiologist, botanist
Hermann Ludwig Cohn
Hermann Ludwig Cohn
Germany
German physician and ophthalmologist
Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
Sweden
Swedish naturalist, creator of the system of flora and fauna
John Abernethy
John Abernethy
Great Britain
In 1787 John Abernethy was appointed assistant surgeon. While in this position, he began lecturing at his home near the hospital, and in time became the founder of St. Bartholomew's Medical School.
Dolores Cannon
Dolores Cannon
USA
American psychotherapist
Leland Clark
Leland Clark
USA
American biochemist
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
South African surgeon who performed the world's first heart transplant in 1969
Alexey Korzh
Alexey Korzh
Ukraine
Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
John Robin Warren
John Robin Warren
Australia
Australian pathologist and scientist
Heinrich Agrippa
Heinrich Agrippa
Germany
German occultist, theologian, astrologer and alchemist.
Washington Sheffield
Washington Sheffield
USA
American dental surgeon and inventor
Magnus Hirshfeld
Magnus Hirshfeld
Germany
German doctor of Jewish origin, sexologist
Mikhail Averbah
Mikhail Averbah
Russian and Soviet ophthalmologist, full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Italy
Italian neurologist
Isaac Israel Hayes
Isaac Israel Hayes
USA
Medic, Arctic researcher
Heinrich Waldeyer
Heinrich Waldeyer
Germany
German anatomist and histologist.
Semen Iashinskij
Semen Iashinskij
Russia
Surgeon
Judah Folkman
Judah Folkman
USA
American cytologist, oncologist.
Temirbolat Berezov
Temirbolat Berezov
Russia
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
Isaac Kraindel
Isaac Kraindel
Russian physician, doctor of medicine
Rashid Askerkhanov
Rashid Askerkhanov
Cardiologist surgeon, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences
Gagik Stamboltsyan
Gagik Stamboltsyan
Armenia
Armenian doctor.
Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace
Qualified psychologist, popular presenter and best-selling author on the topic of dreams and psychology
Emil Abderhalden
Emil Abderhalden
Switzerland
Father of the Swiss physiologist Rudolf Abderhalden. Foreign Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences since 1925.
Vladimir Mironov
Vladimir Mironov
Russia
Doctor of alternative medicine
Anry Labory
Anry Labory
Vietnam
The unrecognized genius of medicine
Paul Jacques Malouin
Paul Jacques Malouin
France
French physician and chemist
Sir Thomas Browne
Sir Thomas Browne
Great Britain
British physician, one of the greatest masters of English prose of the Baroque era, author of literary “experiments” on occult, religious and natural science topics
Alexander Lowen
Alexander Lowen
USA
American psychotherapist
Christian Hahnemann
Christian Hahnemann
Germany
German physician, founder of homeopathy
Vitaliy Cordyume
Vitaliy Cordyume
Ukraine
Medical geneticist
Thomas Keith
Thomas Keith
Great Britain
Gynecologist.
Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
Great Britain
English occultist, Kabbalist, poet, writer, artist and mountaineer
Andrey Lichko
Andrey Lichko
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura
USA
Psychologist, author of social learning theory
Viktor Kalnberz
Viktor Kalnberz
Latvia
Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored Doctor of Latvia, Honored Scientist of Latvia, USSR State Prize Laureate, Latvian State Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Doctor
Barry Marshall
Barry Marshall
Australia
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology 2005.
Semen Khecheenashvilli
Semen Khecheenashvilli
Georgia
Lenin Prize Laureate, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor
Johann Blumenbach
Johann Blumenbach
Germany
A famous German anatomist, anthropologist and naturalist; doctor of medicine, professor.
John Snow
John Snow
Great Britain
English physician who first used ether as an anesthetic
Nikolay Burdenko
Nikolay Burdenko
One of the founders of Russian neurosurgery
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum
Germany
German psychiatrist