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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambroise Paré
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...

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