Category : Physicians

Pioneer in Chemotherapy Born in New York City on November 20, 1919, Wright comes from a family of prominent African­ American...

Founder of Cardiac Surgery Born on January 18, 1858, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, Williams began an apprenticeship to physician Henry...

Founder of Anatomy Vesalius was born in December 1514 in Brussels, Belgium, to a family of physicians and apothecaries. From 1529 to...

Medical Reformer; Discoverer of Cause of Puerperal Fever Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, was born on July 1, 1818, in Buda (now...

Pioneering Islamic Physician of Middle Ages Ar­Razi was born about 865 in Rai, Persia (near modern Tehran, Iran). As a young student, he...

Developer of Oral Contraceptives Pincus was born on April 9, 1903, in Woodbine, New Jersey to a farming family. Following his...

Originator of Theory of Conditioned Reflexes Pavlov was born on September 26, 1849, in Ryazan, in central Russia. His father, a priest...

Founder of Modern Surgery Paré was born the son of an artisan in 1510 in Bourg­ Hersent, France. About 1533, he went to Paris, where he...

Revolutionary Physician and Alchemist Paracelsus was born Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim in November 1493 in Einsiedeln,...