Black, Sir James

Black, Sir James (1924-...), is a Scottish pharmacologist (drug researcher) who discovered two... More >>

Ehrlich, Paul

Ehrlich, AYR lihk, Paul (1854-1915), a German bacteriologist, founded chemotherapy and showed... More >>

Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib

Fibiger, Johannes Andreas Grib, FEE buh guhr, yoh HAH nihs ahn DREH ahs greeb (1867-1928), was a... More >>

Finlay, Carlos Juan

Finlay, Carlos Juan (1833-1915), a Cuban physician, was the first person to suggest that yellow... More >>

Hippocrates

Hippocrates, hih POK ruh teez (460?-380? B.C.) was a well-known ancient physician who practiced... More >>

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne

Lathrop, LAY thruhp, Rose Hawthorne (1851-1926), was the main founder of a Roman Catholic nursing... More >>

Lwoff, Andre

Lwoff, Andre, lwawf, ahn DRAY (1902-1994), a French microbiologist, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize... More >>

Macleod, John James Rickard

Macleod, muh KLOWD, John James Rickard (1876-1935), was a Scottish physiologist. He and Sir... More >>

Morgagni, Giovanni Battista

Morgagni, Giovanni Battista, mawr GAH nyee, jaw VAHN nee baht TEES tah (1682-1771), an Italian... More >>

Morton, William Thomas Green

Morton, William Thomas Green (1819-1868), an American dentist, made the first public... More >>

Smith, Theobald

Smith, Theobald (1859-1934), was an American investigator of diseases in both human beings and... More >>

Snell, George Davis

Snell, George Davis (1903-1996), was an American geneticist who discovered the genes responsible... More >>

Sullivan, Anne Mansfield

Sullivan, Anne Mansfield (1866-1936), became known as the teacher of Helen Keller, a deaf and... More >>

Typhoid Mary

Typhoid Mary was a name sometimes used in referring to Mary Mallon (1868?-1938), the first known... More >>

Virchow, Rudolf

Virchow, FIHR koh, Rudolf (1821-1902), was a prominent German physician, scientist, and... More >>