Franz Volhard

Franz Volhard

male, deceased (1950)
Franz Volhard was a German internist who was born in Munich. He studied medicine in Bonn, Strasbourg, and Halle. His instructors included Eduard...
Carl Ludwig

Carl Ludwig

male, deceased (1895)
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (b. 29 December 1816 in Witzenhausen, Hessen, Germany; d. 23 April 1895) was a German physician and physiologist. He...
Scipione Riva-Rocci

Scipione Riva-Rocci

male, deceased (1937)
Scipione Riva-Rocci was an Italian internist and pediatrician. He is known for developing an easy to use version of the sphygmomanometer. His...
Rumaisa Rahman

Rumaisa Rahman

female, 5 years old
Rumaisa Rahman (born 19 September, 2004) is a baby who, according to medical records, is the smallest born baby in history to survive birth after...
Brian Morris

Brian Morris

male
Brian Morris is a professor of molecular medical sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a molecular biologist, has published over...
Nikolai Korotkov

Nikolai Korotkov

male, deceased (1920)
Nikolai Sergeievich Korotkov (also Korotkoff,) (February 26, 1874-March 14, 1920) was a Russian surgeon, a pioneer of 20th century vascular surgery...
Corneille Heymans

Corneille Heymans

male, deceased (1968)
Dr. Corneille Jean François Heymans was a Belgian physiologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1938 for showing how b...

Maurício Rocha E Silva

male, deceased (1983)
Maurício Oscar da Rocha e Silva was a Brazilian physician, biomedical scientist and pharmacologist. He discovered bradykinin, an endogenous p...
Karl von Vierordt

Karl von Vierordt

male, deceased (1884)
Karl von Vierordt was a German physician. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Göttingen, Vienna, and Heidelberg, and began a practice in K...
Javier Pereira

Javier Pereira

male, 220 years old
Javier Pereira (allegedly born 1789, date of death unknown) was a Zenu Indian who lived in Colombia. Although his death is variously said to have...