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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
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 Specialty Associated conditions External link (if no internal link) Descriptor Aaron's sign: Charles Dettie Aaron: surgery: appendicitis: epigastric pain with pressure on McBurney's point Abadie's sign: Jean Marie Charles Abadie: endocrinology: Graves' disease: levator palpebrae superioris spasm Abadie's symptom: Joseph Louis Irenée Jean ...
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.
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 ...
Alfred Fones (1869–1938) – came up with the name "dental hygienist" and founded that profession; Sten Forshufvud – Swedish dentist who drew on his professional knowledge when theorizing about the poisoning of Napoleon; Rosalie Fougelberg – Sweden's first female dentist after the profession was opened to women
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Celebrity doctors" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. ... People v. Murray ...
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 ...