Leonhard Seppala

Leonhard Seppala

male, deceased (1967)
Leonhard Seppala was a Norwegian of Kven descent. Born in Skibotn and growing up on the nearby island of Skjervøy, he eventually emigrated to A...
Gunnar Kaasen

Gunnar Kaasen

male, deceased (1964)
Gunnar Kaasen (1882 - 1960) was a Norwegian musher who delivered a cylinder containing 300,000 units of diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska in...
Alexandre Yersin

Alexandre Yersin

male, deceased (1943)
Alexandre Emile John Yersin (September 22, 1863-March 1, 1943) was a French-Swiss physician and bacteriologist. Along with Shibasaburo Kitasato he...
Kitasato Shibasaburo

Kitasato Shibasaburo

male, deceased (1931)
was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894,...
Edwin Klebs

Edwin Klebs

male
Edwin Klebs was a German pathologist. He was an assistant of Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin from 1861 until 1866. He is...

Béla Schick

male, deceased (1967)
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...

John Fothergill

male, deceased (1780)
John Fothergill (March 8, 1712 - December 26, 1780), English physician, was born of a Quaker family at Carr End in Yorkshire. He took the degree of...

Joseph O'Dwyer

male, deceased (1898)
Joseph O'Dwyer (1841-1898) was a Catholic American physician. He discovered a valuable system of intubation in diphtheria cases.
James Otis

James Otis

male, deceased (1875)
James Otis (born August 11,1826; died October 30,1875) was a politician from San Francisco, California. James Otis was born in Boston,...
Ruth Cleveland

Ruth Cleveland

female, deceased (1904)
Ruth Cleveland (October 3, 1891 - January 7, 1904) was the first child of United States President Grover Cleveland and the First Lady Frances...