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.

Richard Carmichael

Irish surgeon and venereologist.

Toomas Kivisild

Estonian geneticist, professor of human evolutionary genetics at the University of Cambridge.

John Robert Veyn

English pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate

Walter Channing

An American physician who was the first (1847) to use ether in obstetrics, for general anesthesia.

Ludwig Kleinwachter

Austrian gynecologist

German gastroenterologist and physiologist

Franz Joseph Gall

Austrian physician, founder of phrenology

Janet G. Travell

Doctor, cardiologist

Frederic Hervey Foster Quin

First English homeopath

Olga Afanasyeva

The unrecognized genius of medicine

British surgeon

MD, Consultant Dermatologist and Researcher in Skin and Ageing

American physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1950

Barbara McClintock

American geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1983

Mir-Mamed Dzhavad-Zade

Laureate of the USSR State Prize, Laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize, Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Honored Scientist of the USSR

Yulius Wagner-Yaureng

Austrian physiologist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1927.

American dentist, speaker, and enthusiast.

Doctor and professor of medicine

Suzana Herculano-Houzel

Brazilian scientist, neurobiologist.

English physiologist, one of the founders of biophysics and operations research. Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1922.

Ulf Svante Von Euler

Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1970

Etienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist, inventor and photographer

Austrian-German and American pharmacologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Italian neurologist

German biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1984

English pharmacologist and physiologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936

Christian Hahnemann

German physician, founder of homeopathy

Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard

French physiologist and neurologist, pioneer of endocrinology and neurophysiology

Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau

French epidemiologist. In 1825 he performed the first successful tracheostomy

Hermann Becker-Freyseng

German medic, Luftwaffe staff doctor

Uwe-Christian Arnold

German doctor practicing euthanasia

Abu al-Qasim Al-Zahrawi

Arab physician and scientist