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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.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
List of scientists whose names are used as units; List of people whose names are used in chemical element names; List of scientists whose names are used in physical constants; List of soil scientists; List of spectroscopists; List of statisticians; List of systems scientists; List of taxonomic authorities by name; List of undersea explorers
Discover medical schools that trained influential physicians.While many people hope to become physicians, only a minority of candidates are accepted into U. 16 Medical Schools That Trained Famous ...