- Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and isolation of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus "Penicillium notatum" in 1945, for which he shared a Nobel Prize with Florey and Chain. - Severo Ochoa
Severo Ochoa de Albornoz was a Spanish-American biochemist, and the recipient of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Severo Ochoa was born in Luarca (Asturias), Spain. His father was Severo Manuel Ochoa, a lawyer and businessman, and his mother, Carmen de Albornoz. His father died when Ochoa was seven and he and his mother moved to Málaga, where he attended school through high school. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone (born 7 August 1961 Valencia, Spain) is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, with which he has been affiliated since 1997. He is the Director of the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation and Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Dr. - Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain. - Vincent Lam
Vincent Lam (born September 5 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor. Born in London, Ontario and raised in Ottawa, his parents came to Canada from the Chinese expatriate community in Vietnam. He attended St. Pius X High School and did his medical training at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1999. - Michael Rosen
Michael Wayne Rosen (born May 7, 1946 in Harrow, and brought up in Pinner, Middlesex, in England) is a children's novelist and poet and the author of 140 books. He was appointed as the fifth Children's Laureate in June 2007, succeeding Jacqueline Wilson, and holds this honour till 2009. Rosen's father was a secondary school teacher before becoming a professor of English at the Institute of Education, London, … - Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. Hammer was CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and development company. - Solomon H. Snyder
Dr. Solomon H. Snyder (born December 26, 1938) is an American neuroscientist. Snyder graduated from Georgetown University in 1958 and Georgetown Medical School in 1962. At a very early age he published his research on ornithine decarboxylase and RNA synthesis which opened up countless vistas in the neurosciences. After a two-year fellowship at the NIH, Snyder moved to Johns Hopkins Medical School to complete his residency in psychiatry. - Evan Dobelle
Evan Samuel Dobelle, President of the New England Board of Higher Education, is known for promoting higher-education investment in the Creative Economy, public-private partnerships and the "College Ready" model that helps students graduate from high school and college. Elected mayor of Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1973 and 1975, Dobelle was later Massachusetts State Commissioner of Environmental Management and Natural Resources. - Robin Murray
Professor Robin Murray (1944-) is Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Psychological Medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry and Guy's, King's and St Thomas' Medical School, London. The Psychosis Research Group he leads is one of the largest outside the USA. It uses a range of methods to improve understanding and treatment of psychotic illnesses, particularly schizophrenia. - Margaret Singer
Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. was a clinical psychologist and adjunct professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Dr. Singer's main areas of research included schizophrenia, family therapy, brainwashing and coercive persuasion. Singer performed research at the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center Institute of Research, the National Institute of Mental Health, … - John Pemberton
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831-August 16, 1888) was an American druggist and the creator of Coca-Cola. - Thomas L. Schwenk
Thomas L. Schwenk, M.D., is professor of Family Medicine and chair of the department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. In 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He also serves as a member of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program. - César Milstein
César Milstein was an Argentine-born scientist who spent most of his life in Great Britain. His major field of research was antibodies. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler. Milstein was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina. - Michael Wooldridge
Dr Michael Richard Lewis Wooldridge (born November 7, 1956) is an Australian doctor and politician and a former Health Minister of Australia. Michael Wooldridge attended Scotch College, Melbourne before attending Monash University medical school, from where he graduated in 1981. He later qualified as a nephrologist with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. - Deidre Downs
Deidre Downs (born July 7, 1980), Miss America 2005, is an aspiring physician from Birmingham, Alabama. As part of her year of service as Miss America, she campaigned for Curing Childhood Cancer. For her talent, she sang a rendition of the ballad "I'm Afraid This Must Be Love". Downs succeeded Miss America 2004 Ericka Dunlap on September 18, 2004. Downs is also the winner with the longest consecutive reign (Mary Katherine Campbell had two separate wins in 1922 and 1923), … - William J. Winslade
William J. Winslade (born 18 November 1941), Ph.D., J.D., is the "James Wade Rockwell Professor of Philosophy of Medicine" at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He is interested in policy issues related to traumatic brain injury, and has proposed banning boxing - Charles Keating
Charles Keating (born October 22, 1941) is a British actor. Born in London, England of Irish Catholic extraction, he appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon before turning to television, winning the role of Rex in ITV's celebrated adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited". Among other soap roles, he is best known for his role as reformed villain Carl Hutchins on the American soap opera "Another World" from 1983 to 1985, … - David Bull
Dr. David Bull (born 9 May 1969, Kent, England) is a British doctor and television presenter who has presented and appears on a variety of British television programmes including Living's Most Haunted Live, Five's "The Wright Stuff", the BBC's "Watchdog" and Channel 4's "Richard & Judy". He is also the Conservative candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election. He studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, … - Zhu Yu
Zhu Yu (b. 1971) is a performance artist living in Beijing, China. His work deals with subjects of morality. Yu's most famous piece of conceptual art, titled "Eating People," was performed at a Shanghai arts festival in 2000. It consisted of a series of photographs of him cooking and eating what is alleged to be a human fetus. One picture, circulated on the internet via e-mail in 2001, provoked investigations by both the FBI and Scotland Yard. - Alfred G. Knudson
Alfred George Knudson Jr. PhD (born in Los Angeles, 1922) is a geneticist specialised in the genetics of cancer. Probably the most important one of his many contributions to the field was the formulation of the Knudson hypothesis in 1971, which explains the effects of mutation on carcinogenesis (the development of cancer). Knudson attended the California Institute of Technology, where he obtained a BSc in biochemistry and genetics in 1956. - Marci Bowers
Marci L. Bowers is an American gynecologist who used to practice in Seattle at the PolyClinic. She currently operates a surgical practice in Trinidad, Colorado. In 2003, Stanley Biber retired. She took over Biber's practice after his retirement, and has performed vaginoplasty surgeries since July 2003 in the same facility that made Biber in Trinidad, Colorado, making the city famous as the so-called vaginoplasty capital of the world. - Aram Chobanian
Dr. Chobanian founded the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute in 1973 and oversaw its rapid growth for over 20 years. He is a scientist who has worked on the basic and clinical aspects of cardiovascular disease with particular emphasis on high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis, and he was involved in the introduction of new treatments for hypertension. - Kathie L. Olsen
Kathie L. Olsen is an American neuroscientist who is noted for her work in scientific policy. Since August 2005, she has been the Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the National Science Foundation. - Modesto Maidique
Dr. Modesto A. Maidique (pronounced may-DEEK, born in Havana, Cuba March 20, 1940) has been the President of Florida International University since 1986, making him by far the longest serving University President in the State of Florida. During this time, Dr. Maidique has led FIU as the University's student enrollment doubled to over 39,000 students, and as the University acquired a School of Architecture, a College of Law, a College of Medicine and a football team. - Zeferino Vaz
Zeferino Vaz led the construction, establishment and development of the Unicamp university, in the interior of the State of São Paulo, Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s. The main campus is named after Zeferino, who strived to bring together some of Brazil's best scientists to form a solid and respected research institution. Zeferino was born and lived his childhood in São Paulo. He attended the Medicine school of the University of São Paulo and got his M.D. degree in 1932, … - Patricia Bath
Patricia Era Bath (born November 4, 1942, Harlem, New York) is an ophthalmologist credited as the first African American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Bath received the patent in 1988 for an "Apparatus for ablating and removing cataract lenses", a version of a device designed to help remove cataracts with a fiberoptic laser. Bath graduated with a baccalaureate degree from Hunter College in 1964, … - Mark Pope
Mark Edward Pope (born September 11 1972 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA. He played for the Indiana Pacers, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Denver Nuggets and enjoyed his best season in 2000-2001 when he averaged 2.1 points per game for the Bucks. Pope was a second round pick of the Pacers in the 1996 NBA Draft after his college career, first at the University of Washington and then at the University of Kentucky. - Alexander Elder
Alexander Elder, M.D., is a professional stock trader, living in New York. He is the author of "Trading for a Living" and the "Study Guide for Trading for a Living", both best-selling and well known among traders. First published in 1993, these books have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, and Russian. - Marie Equi
Marie Diana Equi (born 7 April 1872 in New Bedford, Massachusetts; died 13 July 1952 in Portland, Oregon) was a medical doctor and anarchist. Her father was Italian and her mother of Irish parentage. In 1893, she moved to The Dalles, Oregon with her friend Bess Holcomb, who had been offered work as a teacher. The two lived together quietly in what has been called a "Boston marriage". On 21 July 1893, Equi was the subject of an article in "The Dalles Times-Mountaineer", … - Ida S. Scudder
Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder (December 9, 1870-May 24, 1960) was a medical missionary to India and the founder of the Vellore Christian Medical Center in Vellore, India. She was born of Dr. John Scudder II and Mrs. Sophia Weld Scudder, part of a long line of medical missionary Scudders in India. She was invited by Dwight Moody to study at his Northfield Seminary, where she earned a reputation for pranks. While Ida had expressed a resolve not to become a medical missionary, … - Ron Underwood
Ronald Brian Underwood, (born November 6 1953), is an American film director. Despite early cult success with "Tremors" and commercial success with "City Slickers", perhaps his best known films, "Mighty Joe Young" and "The Adventures of Pluto Nash", were both box-office disasters. Underwood was born in Glendale, California but spent some of his teenage years living as an exchange student in Sri Lanka. - Zvi Laron
Zvi Laron is a Romanian-Israeli paediatric endocrinologist, born 1927, Cernăuţi, Romania. Zvi Laron began his medical education at the medical school in Timişoara. In 1948 he moved to Israel and graduated from the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem in 1952. 1956-1957 he was a research and clinical fellow in paediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston. - Charles Odegaard
Charles E. Odegaard (Born on January 10, 1911 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. Died on November 14, 1999 in Seattle, Washington) was the 19th president of the University of Washington from 1958-1973. Odegaard is credited in transforming the University of Washington from an average state university to among the top public universities in the United States. - George Frederic Still
Sir George Frederic Still, KCVO (1868-1941) was a British pediatrician who first described a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis which bears his name. He was born in Highbury, England and attended medical school at Cambridge University. In 1897, he published his doctoral thesis describing a form of childhood febrile arthritis today known as Still's disease. He was knighted upon his retirement in 1937. - Bernd Sebastian Kamps
Bernd Sebastian Kamps (born 1954) is a German medical doctor and online medical book publisher. After graduating from the medical school of the University of Cologne, Kamps practiced medicine at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Frankfurt. Subsequently, Kamps became director of the International Amedeo Literature Service, a medical journal aggregator designed to compile research from notable medical journals and to organize the research by subject, … - Bennie Osburn
Bennie I. Osburn is the Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis. He was appointed in 1996 and reappointed for another 5 year term by Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef in 2006. Dean Osburn earned his BS and DVM degrees at Kansas State University and a PhD in Comparative Pathology at the University of California, Davis. =Related Links= Biography of Bennie Osburn - Brian MacKinnon
Brian MacKinnon (born 4 June 1963) is a Scotsman who posed as teenager Brandon Lee to get back into medical school. MacKinnon was a medical student in the University of Glasgow but he kept failing his exams and was eventually taken off the course. According to his later interview, he felt he had to abandon his studies because of an illness. He later returned to study biological sciences, but because he failed to register, he never officially graduated. - Drauzio Varella
Drauzio Varella is a Brazilian physician, educator, scientist and noted medical science popularizer in the press and TV. Varella came from a family of Portuguese-Brazilians and Spanish Brazilians from São Paulo. He studied medicine at the Medical School of the University of São Paulo. While a student, he was one of the founders of a pre-med preparatory course with João Carlos di Genio and other colleagues, and where he taught chemistry for several years. - Leila Denmark
Leila Alice (Daughtry) Denmark (born February 1, 1898) is an American pediatrician who became the oldest practicing pediatrician in the world, retiring at the age of 104 in 2002. Born in Portal, Georgia, Denmark is the oldest of 12 children. She attended Tift College in Forsyth, Georgia, where she trained to be a teacher, but decided to attend medical school when her fiance, John E. Denmark, was posted to Java, …
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