- Michael Crichton
Crichton, born in Chicago, is best known as the author of several books that have gone onto become famous films, most notably "Jurassic Park" and its sequel, "The Lost World". He is also the author of "The Andromeda Strain", "Rising Sun", "The Great Train Robbery", "Congo", "Sphere", "Eaters Of The Dead, and "Timeline" among others, all of which have been adapted for the big screen and TV. He was also the creator of the award-winning TV series [... ] - Charles Krauthammer
Charles Krauthammer, (born 13 March 1950), is a Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest commentator on "Fox News". His print work appears in the "Washington Post", "Time" magazine and "The Weekly Standard". - William James
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City, son of Henry James, Sr., … - Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer (born October 26, 1959) is an American professor and physician, currently the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. His medical specialty is Infectious Diseases. Farmer is one of the founders of Partners In Health (PIH), an international health and social justice organization. - Harvey Cushing
Harvey Williams Cushing (April 8, 1869 - October 7, 1939) was an American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest neurosurgeons of the 20th century. - Bill Frist
William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr., M.D., (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He is a former United States Senator from Tennessee. Frist was also Senate Majority Leader. Frist is a Republican and was frequently mentioned as a candidate for that party's 2008 presidential nomination, but decided in November 2006 not to run. - Lewis Thomas
Lewis Thomas (November 25 1913 - December 3, 1993) was a physician, poet, etymologist, essayist, administrator, educator, policy advisor, and researcher. Thomas was born in Flushing, New York and attended Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He became Dean of Yale Medical School and New York University School of Medicine, and President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute. He was invited to write regular essays in the "New England Journal of Medicine", … - Tenley Albright
Tenley Emma Albright, M.D. (born July 18, 1935 in Newton Centre, Massachusetts) became the first American female skater to win a figure skating Olympic gold medal, at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. She also won the U.S. Championships 5 times, from 1952 to 1956; was World Champion in 1953 and 1955; and had been the silver medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics. Albright retired from competitive skating after the 1956 season. - John R. Adler
John R. Adler, Jr., born in 1954 in Yonkers, New York, is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University who specializes in the treatment of brain and spinal tumors. As a pioneer in the field of radiosurgery, he is an author on more than 120 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. In 1991, he founded Accuray, a company which manufactures the Cyberknife, an image-guided radiosurgical instrument that noninvasively ablates tumors almost anywhere in the body. - E. Donnall Thomas
Dr. Edward Donnall (Don) Thomas (b. March 15, 1920) is an American physician, professor emeritus at the University of Washington, and director emeritus of the clinical research division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. In 1990 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Joseph E. Murray for the development of cell and organ transplantation. Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia. - Judah Folkman
Dr. Judah Folkman (b. 1933) is an American cellular scientist best known for his research on angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Folkman attended Ohio State University and then Harvard Medical School. After his graduation, he worked at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he rose to the rank of chief resident in surgery. During this time, Folkman worked on liver cancer and atrio-pacemakers. His work earned him the Boylston Medical Prize, … - Philip Leder
Philip Leder (b. November 19, 1934) is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1960. In 1964, he graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is known for his early work with Marshall Nirenberg for working on the genetic code and the Nirenberg and Leder experiment. Since that landmark experiment, he has made many seminal contributions in the fields of molecular genetics, … - Leonard Wood
Leonard Wood (October 9, 1860 - August 7, 1927) was a physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the Philippines. Early in his military career, he was awarded the Medal of Honor. - Christian B. Anfinsen
Dr. Christian Boehmer Anfinsen, Jr. (March 26, 1916 - May 14, 1995) was a biochemist and a 1972 Nobel Prize winner for work on ribonuclease, especially concerning the connection between the amino acid sequence and the biologically active conformation (see Anfinsen's dogma). Anfinsen was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania to a Norwegian American family. He earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in 1937, … - Alexander Rich
Alexander Rich, MD (American; born "c." 1925) is a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. ("magna cum laude") and an M.D. ("cum laude") from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name. Rich is the founder of Alkermes Inc. - Sidney Farber
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, N.Y., the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a graduate of the University of Buffalo in 1923. He took his first year of medical school at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany. He entered Harvard Medical School as a second-year student and graduated in 1927. He was married to Norma C. Farber (formerly Holzman), a children's author. - Alfred Sommer
Alfred (Al) Sommer is an American academic at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was born in 1942 in New York City and graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1963. Sommer has an MD from Harvard Medical School (1967) and an MHS from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health (1973). He is professor of Epidemiology and International Health, as well as Ophthalmology (at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine). - Dean Hamer
Dr Dean Hamer (born 1951) is a geneticist, who, as of 2007 is the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health). He obtained his BA at Trinity College, CT, USA and his Ph.D from Harvard Medical School. He was a co-inventor of gene transfer in animal cells and the first to produce growth hormones, vaccine subunits, and other useful products by this approach. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., (August 29, 1809 - October 7,1894) was a physician by profession but achieved fame as a writer; he was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. - William French Anderson
William French Anderson, M.D. (b. 1936) is a U.S. physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of gene therapy. He graduated from Harvard College in 1958 and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990, he claimed to be the first person ever to succeed in gene therapy of a 4-year-old girl suffering from SCID (a form of an immuno-deficiency disorder called "bubble boy disease"). His claims were later found to have been exaggerated. - Karl Menninger
Karl Augustus Menninger (July 22, 1893 - July 18, 1990) was an American psychiatrist and a member of the famous Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. Karl Menninger was born in Topeka, Kansas. He attended Washburn University, Indiana University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he graduated cum laude in 1917. - Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine". - Simon Levay
Simon LeVay (born 28 August 1943 in Oxford, England) is a neuroscientist and author known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation. He is also the co-author of a textbook on human sexuality and has coauthored books on diverse topics such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and extraterrestrial life. - Walter Bradford Cannon
Walter Bradford Cannon (Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, October 19, 1871 - Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 19, 1945) was an American physiologist. - Jeffries Wyman
Jeffries Wyman (August 11, 1814 - September 4, 1874) was an American naturalist and anatomist, born at Chelmsford, Mass. He graduated at Harvard College in 1833 and at Harvard Medical School in 1837. He was made curator at Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1840. After studying on Europe, he was elected in 1843 professor of anatomy and physiology at Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Virginia. In 1847 he became professor of anatomy at Harvard, where he remained till his death, … - Paul Dudley White
Paul Dudley White, M.D. (June 6, 1886 - October 31, 1973) was a pioneering cardiologist, and a founding member of the American Heart Association. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts and attended the Roxbury Latin School, from which he graduated in 1903. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911. - Jim Yong Kim
Dr. Jim Yong Kim is an American physician. He is a Professor of Medicine and Social Medicine and Chair of the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a former director of the World Health Organization HIV/AIDS department. - Joseph Murray
Joseph E. Murray (born 1 April 1919), American surgeon, performed the first successful human kidney transplant from an adult to his identical twin. Murray won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 for work on organ and cell transplantation. - James B. Sumner
James Batcheller Sumner (November 19, 1887 - August 12, 1955) was an American chemist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946 with John Howard Northrop and Wendell Meredith Stanley. - Herbert Benson
Herbert Benson (born 1935) is an American cardiologist and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute near Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Harvard School of Medicine. Benson is the Director Emeritus of the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI), the Mind/Body Medical Institute Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and is the author or co-author of more than 175 scientific publications and 11 books. - Rafael Campo
Rafael Campo (poet) (1964) is an openly gay, Cuban-American poet, doctor, and author. He was born in New Jersey. He graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Medical School. He practices medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. His writing focuses on themes that promote equality and justice for gays, people of color, and working-class individuals. - Bernadine Healy
Dr. Bernadine Patricia Healy (b. August 4, 1944) is a cardiologist and a former head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Red Cross. She is a senior writer for US News & World Report. Healy is a life-long Republican. - Robert B. Aird
Robert Burns Aird (1903-2000), an American educator and physician, founded the department of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco. In addition to conducting his own research (Flynn Aird syndrome bears his name), Aird developed the department into a leading academic center for study of the brain sciences, drawing future Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner as a resident late during Aird's tenure. - Joseph Lovell
Dr. Joseph Lovell (December 22, 1788 - October 17, 1836) was the 8th Surgeon General of the United States Army, (April 18, 1818 - October 17, 1836), Lovell was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of James S. and Deborah (Gorham) Lovell. His father attained the grade of major in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and his grandfather, James Lovell, was an active member of the Whig organization in Boston before the Revolution, … - Jerry Avorn
Jerry Avorn , M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. An internist, geriatrician, and drug researcher, he is the author of more than two hundred papers in the medical literature on medication use and its outcomes, and one of the most frequently cited researchers in the fields of social science and medicine. - Morton Prince
Morton Henry Prince (December 21, 1854 - August 31, 1929). American neurologist. Morton Prince was an American physician who specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology, and was leading force in establishing psychology as a clinical and academic discipline. He was part of a handful of men who disseminated European ideas about psychopathology, especially in understanding dissociative phenomenon. He was one of the founders of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1906, … - Elliott P. Joslin
Elliot Proctor Joslin, M.D. (June 1869 - 28 January 1962) was an American diabetologist, and founder of the Joslin Clinic. He was born in Oxford, Massachusetts and educated at Leicester Academy, Yale College and Harvard Medical School. While still a medical student, he wrote the work that was to later be published as "The Pathology of Diabetes Mellitus", which became a mainstay of diabetes treatment. His postgraduate training was at Massachusetts General Hospital, … - Nathan Cooley Keep
Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875) was a great pioneer in the field of dentistry, and the founding Dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Dean Keep was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, on December 23, 1800. Adept with his hands, he became interested in dentistry following an apprenticeship with a local jeweler. In 1821, he moved to Boston and graduated from Harvard Medical School with an M.D. in 1827. - Andrew Weil
Andrew Weil , M.D., has devoted the past thirty years to developing, practicing, and teaching others about the principles of integrative medicine. The founder of Weil Lifestyle, LLC , the leading resource for integrative medicine education, information, products, and services, Dr. Weil combines a Harvard education and a lifetime of practicing natural and preventive medicine to provide a unique approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. - Mildred Fay Jefferson
Mildred Fay Jefferson (1927-) is an American doctor and activist, born in Texas. Her father was a Methodist minister. Growing up in the Jim Crow era, she nevertheless became the first African American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School in 1951. In addition, she was the first woman in the Boston Surgical Society, the first woman to be a surgical intern at the Boston City Hospital and the first woman to receive the Lantern Award for Patriotism.
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