Heinrich Quincke
German physician Heinrich Quincke (1842–1922) pioneered lumbar puncture and described Quincke’s pulse, oedema, triad, and more thus shaping modern clinical medicine
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German physician. Pioneer of chemotherapy; fluorescein eye studies, immunology, and Salvarsan for syphilis.
Frieda Robscheit-Robbins
Frieda Robscheit-Robbins (1888–1973), pioneering pathologist who advanced aneamia research, yet was overlooked for the 1934 Nobel despite major contributions.
George Hoyt Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (1878–1976), Nobel winner, advanced anaemia therapy, coined thalassaemia, and described Whipple disease in 1907.
Bernhard Naunyn
German physician Bernhard Naunyn (1839–1925), pioneer of experimental medicine, defined acidosis, advanced diabetes and gallstone research, and co-founded Naunyn–Schmiedeberg’s Archives
Carlos Chagas
Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), Brazilian physician–scientist who identified Trypanosoma cruzi and described Chagas disease (1908–1909).
Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was an English neurophysiologist. Sherrington’s Laws (1897–1900); Liddell–Sherrington Reflex (1924) and defining the synapse
André Cournand
André Frédéric Cournand (1895 – 1988) was a French physician and physiologist. Awarded the Nobel Prize for detailing heart catheterization
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943) revolutionized medicine with the discovery of blood groups and the Rh factor, laying the foundation for modern transfusion and immunology.
William Bragg
Sir William Henry Bragg (1862–1942) was an English physicist, mathematician, and chemist. Bragg's Law, Bragg Spectrometer and Bragg-Paul Pulsator
August Krogh
August Schack Steenberg Krogh (1874-1949) was a Danish physiologist and Nobel laureate who developed multiple apparatus that bear his name
Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (1860 – 1927) was a Dutch physician and physiologist. Invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG) in 1903