Clemens von Pirquet

Clemens von Pirquet

male, deceased (1929)
pasteur institute, University of Innsbruck, Ergon, Vienna, Austria, smallpox, bacteria…allergy
Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrician best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and...

Theron Randolph

male, deceased (1995)
physician, American, allergy, Medical, Serology, serological
Theron Randolph (1906 - 1995) was a doctor, allergist, and researcher from the United States. He wrote four books and over 300 medical articles. He...

Robert Cathcart

male
from the San Francisco Bay Area, allergy, avian flu, ebola virus, Hepatitis, irritable bowel syndrome
Robert F. Cathcart III (1932 - present) is a Los Altos, California-based physician and leading proponent of orthomolecular medicine, specifically...
Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet

male, deceased (1992)
Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Esperantist, Neuchatel, Histamine, University of Rome La Sapienza…allergy
Daniel Bovet (March 23, 1907 - April 8, 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for...

Robert Cooke

male
Rutgers University alumni, antibodies, antigen, anaphylaxis, allergy, heredity
In 1916 Robert Cooke and Albert Vandeveer demonstrated the role of heredity in the origins of allergy. According to Cooke, 48% of his allergic...
Margaret Rudkin

Margaret Rudkin

female, deceased (1967)
Norwalk, Tupelo, from New York City, World War II, from Connecticut, fairfield…allergy
Margaret Rudkin (September 14, 1897 - June 1, 1967) of Fairfield, Connecticut was the founder of Pepperidge Farm. Born in New York City, she was...

Leonard Thompson

male
diabetic, Canadian, Diabetes, insulin, allergy, allergic reaction
Leonard Thompson (1908 - 1935) is regarded as the very first person to have received injection of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. He received...

Lou Rankin

male
sculptor, artist, American, caricature, Hallmark, concrete…allergy
Lou Rankin was a popular American sculptor starting in the 1960s. Originally trained as a caricature artist, he developed an innovative use of...
Bengt I. Samuelsson

Bengt I. Samuelsson

male, 75 years old
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, inflammation, Sune K. Bergström, prostaglandin…allergy
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson is a Swedish biochemist. He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became...

Béla Schick

male, deceased (1967)
Balatonbolgar, scarlet fever, hungarian, talmud, Pediatrician, Jewish person…allergy
Béla Schick, was a Hungarian-born American pediatrician. He is the founder of the Schick test. Was born in Balatonbolgar, Hungary, and brought up i...