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Ralph Paffenbarger (1922–2007) — conducted classic studies demonstrating conclusively that active people reduce their risk of heart disease and live longer; George Papanicolaou (1883–1962) — Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection; inventor of the Pap smear; Paracelsus (1493–1541) — founder of toxicology
Efren Saldivar — Murdered 60+ people while working in Brownsville, Texas as a respiratory therapist. Ronald G. Beckett — Famous for advancing science in Mummy Science . Mary Ann Vecchio — Subject of a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph by photojournalism student John Filo in the aftermath of the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970.
Silvano Raia (born 1930), Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989; B. K. Misra (born 1953), First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
Name Birth Death Nationality Notes Reference(s) Maude Abbott: 1869: 1940: Canada [1] Robert Adams: 1791: 1875: Ireland [2] Anthony Adducci: 1937: 2006: United States: Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3] Raymond Perry Ahlquist: 1914: 1983: United States [4] John Ainsworth: 1957 – British: Treating ...
For a description of these, see Specialty (medicine) ... Space medicine doctors (37 P) Sports physicians (1 C, 3 P) Surgeons (8 C, 9 P) T. Teratologists (11 P)
Name Lifespan Nationality Notable contribution(s) Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert: 1768–1837 French Authored one of the first dermatologic atlases, entitled "Descriptions des maladies de la peau" [1] Diltor Opromolla: 1934–2004 Brazilian Was a physician and dermatologist respected due to his lifetime work with leprosy patients and leprosy research.
Name Lifespan Age Notability Elizabeth Bagshaw: 1881–1982: 100: Canadian physician and director of the first birth control clinic in Canada [1] Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici: 1923–2023: 100: Romanian neurologist [2] [3] Joseph Barnes: 1914–2017: 102: Irish physician [4] Grace Barr-Kumarakulasinghe: 1908–2013: 104: Sri Lankan ...
This is a list of fictional doctors (characters that use the appellation "doctor", medical and otherwise), from literature, films, television, and other media.. Shakespeare created a doctor in his play Macbeth (c 1603) [1] with a "great many good doctors" having appeared in literature by the 1890s [2] and, in the early 1900s, the "rage for novel characters" included a number of "lady doctors". [3]