- Royal College Of Pathologists
The Royal College of Pathologists, was founded in 1962, and is a medical organisation that promotes and sets standards for the study and practice of pathology. The College has oversight of the following main disciplines *Histopathology **Neuropathology **Cytopathology **Paediatric pathology *Chemical Pathology *Haematology (with the Royal College of Physicians) *Immunology (with the Royal College of Physicians) *Microbiology & Virology - John Lee
John Andre Lee is an English consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital and clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School. Lee gained his medical degree, a BSc. and a Ph.D. in physiology at University College London. He is most notable to the wider public as co-presenter (with Gunther von Hagens) of "Anatomy for Beginners" (screened in the UK on Channel 4 in 2005) and "Autopsy: Life and Death" (Channel 4, 2006). - Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (born March 25 1914) is an American agricultural scientist, humanitarian, Nobel laureate, and has been called the father of the Green Revolution. Borlaug is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. - Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner (June 14 1868 - June 26 1943), was an Austrian biologist and physician. He is noted for his development in 1901 of the modern system of classification of blood groups from his identification of the presence of agglutinins in the blood, and in 1930 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. With Alexander S. Wiener, he identified the Rh factor in 1937. He was awarded a Lasker Award in 1946 posthumously. - Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi (July 7, 1843 - January 21, 1926) was an Italian physician and scientist. Golgi was born in Corteno now Corteno Golgi, province of Brescia, Italy. His father was a physician and district medical officer. Golgi studied medicine at University of Pavia, where he worked in the experimental pathology laboratory under Giulio Bizzozero, who elucidated the properties of bone marrow. He graduated in 1865. He spent much of his career studying the central nervous system. - Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist. - James Ewing
James Stephen Ewing was an American pathologist. He was the first Professor of pathology at Cornell University and became famous with the discovery of a form of malignant bone tumor that later became known as Ewing's sarcoma. - Thomas Hodgkin
Thomas Hodgkin (August 17, 1798 - April 5, 1866) was a British physician and considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital. - Simon Flexner
Simon Flexner (March 25, 1863 in Louisville, Kentucky - May 2, 1946) was a physician, administrator, and professor of pathology at the University of Pennsylvania (1899-1903). He was the first director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901-1935) and a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation. He was also a friend and advisor to John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. He was the elder brother of Abraham Flexner. - Austin Flint
Austin Flint (1812-86) was an American physician, born at Petersham, Mass. He was educated at Amherst and Harvard and graduated at the latter in 1833. After practicing at Boston and Northampton, he moved to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1836. He was appointed professor of the institutes and practices of medicine in Rush Medical College, Chicago; resigned after one year, in 1846, and established the "Buffalo Medical Journal". - Andrew Clark
Sir Andrew Clark, 1st Baronet (October 28, 1826 - November 6, 1893), Scottish physician and pathologist, was born at Aberdeen. His father, who also was a physician, died when he was only a few years old. After attending school in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee, attending the High School of Dundee and was then apprenticed to a pharmacist; upon returning to Aberdeen he began his medical studies in the University there. - William Cowper
William Cowper (c.1666 - March 8, 1709) was an English surgeon and anatomist, famous for his early description of what is now known as the Cowper's gland. Cowper was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, and he was apprenticed to a London surgeon, William Bignall, in March of 1682. He was admitted to the Barber-Surgeon's Company in 1691 and began practicing in London the same year. In 1694, he published his noted work, "Myotomia Reformata, … - Ernst Boris Chain
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (June 19, 1906 - August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Chain was born in Berlin to a Russian father who moved from his birthland to study chemistry abroad, and a German Berliner mother. In 1930, he received his degree in chemistry from Friedrich Wilhelm University. After the Nazis came to power, Chain knew that he, being a Jew, … - Stephen Paget
Stephen Paget was an English surgeon, the son of the distinguished surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget, who has been long credited with proposing the "seed and soil" theory of metastasis, even though in his paper “The Distribution Of Secondary Growths In Cancer Of The Breast”, The Lancet, Volume 133, Issue 3421, 23 March 1889, Pages 571-573, … - Astley Paston Cooper
Sir Astley Paston Cooper was an English surgeon and the author of medical text books. He was born in 1768 at Norfolk and died in 1841. He studied medicine in London, and attended the lectures of John Hunter . After visiting Paris in 1794 he was appointed professor of anatomy at Surgeon's Hall, and in 1800 head surgeon at Guy's Hospital. In 1822 his great work on Dislocations and Fractures was published. - Theobald Smith
Theobald Smith (July 31, 1859 - December 10, 1934) was a pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist and is widely-considered to be America's first internationally-significant medical research scientist. - John McCrae
Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae, MD (November 30, 1872 - January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist, soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". - Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton (February 27,1869 - September 22,1970) was the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School and was a leading expert in the field of occupational health. She was a pioneer in the field of toxicology, studying occupational illnesses and the dangerous effects of industrial metals and chemical compounds on the human body. Alice Hamilton was born in 1869 to Montgomery Hamilton and Gertrude Hamilton (nee Pond), in Fort Wayne, Indiana. - Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist. He was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy) from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father. He graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin. Despite a strong interest for mathematics and physics, he decided to study medicine. At only 22, he graduated in morbid anatomy and pathology under the supervision of professor Giuseppe Levi. - David Weatherall
David Weatherall is a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine. His research concentrated on the genetics of the haemoglobinopathies and, in particular, a group of inherited haematological disorders known as the thalassemias that are associated with abnormalities in the production of globin (the protein component of haemoglobin). - Stephen L. Johnson
Stephen L. Johnson (born March 21, 1951 in Washington D. C.) is the current Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Johnson attended Taylor University, receiving a B.A. in biology followed by a master's degree in pathology from George Washington University. Before working for the U.S. Government, he held a number of positions in laboratory and bio-technology companies. He was also the director of Hazelton Laboratories (now known as Covance). - Jonathan Hutchinson
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913), English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist and pathologist, was born on 23 July 1828 at Selby, Yorkshire, England, his parents belonging to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Paul Langerhans
Paul Langerhans (July 25 1847 - July 20 1888) was a famous German pathologist and biologist. - Theodor Bilharz
Theodor Maximilian Bilharz was a German physician and an important pioneer in the field of parasitology. Attended the secondary school in Sigmaringen and took an early interest in entomology and studied philosophy for two years at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg im Breisgau. He graduated as a pathologist from the University of Tübingen in 1848. In 1850 he journeyed to Egypt and became the first chief of the surgery at the Kasr-el-Aini Medical School of Cairo. - René Dubos
René Jules Dubos, was a French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who exemplified qualities of the modern Renaissance person. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally". He devoted most of his professional life to the empirical study of microbial diseases and to the analysis of the environmental and social factors that affect the welfare of humans. - Gordon MacPherson
Dr George Gordon MacPherson is Reader in Experimental Pathology, Turnbull Fellow, Tutor in Medicine, and Senior Tutor at Oriel College, Oxford. He holds a Bachelor's degree (B.M.), Master's degree (M.A.) and a doctorate (D.Phil.). His research interests lie in Cell Biology, Pathology, and Immunology. Medically qualified, he researches immunology at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. - Robert Bárány
Robert Bárány was an Austrian physician of Hungarian-Jewish descent. For his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus of the ear he received the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Bárány was born in Vienna. He attended medical school at Vienna University, graduating in 1900. As a doctor in Vienna, Bárány was syringing fluid into the inner ear of a patient to relieve the patient's dizzy spells. - David A. Wood
David Alvra Wood, Sr. (December 21, 1904 - November 6, 1996), was a medical doctor noted for his advanced research in pathology. Born in Flora Vista, New Mexico, Dr. Wood grew up in modest surroundings. Showing academic and artistic talent from an early age, David graduated near the top of his high school class and went on to attend Stanford University, where he was in English classes with John Steinbeck and graduated with a degree in Chemistry in 1926. - Julia Polak
Professor Dame Julia M. Polak, FMedSci, DBE (b. 1939, Argentina) and was educated at the University of Buenos Aires, before moving to London. She is married to Professor Daniel Catovsky, and has three children. Prof. Polak is one of the longest surviving recipients of a heart and lung transplant in the United Kingdom. It was her transplant in 1995 which caused her to change her career direction from Pathology towards the newly developing field of Tissue Engineering. - Roberta Bondar
Roberta Bondar , a medical doctor and Ph.D. in neurobiology, became the first Canadian woman astronaut and the world's first neurologist in space in 1992 on the International Microgravity Laboratory. She was elected to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame for her pioneering space medical research. - John Hughes Bennett
John Hughes Bennett was an English physician, physiologist and pathologist. His main contribution to medicine has been the first description of leukemia as a blood disorder. Born in London, he was educated at Exeter, and being destined for the medical profession he entered an apprenticeship with a surgeon in Maidstone. In 1833 he began his studies at Edinburgh, and in 1837 graduated with the highest honors and a gold medal, … - Rufus Of Ephesus
Rufus of Ephesus (fl. late 1st century AD) was an ancient physician and author who wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. He was to some extent a follower of Hippocrates, although he at times criticized or departed from that author's teachings. His writings dealt with subjects often neglected by other authors, such as the treatment of slaves and the elderly. After training at Alexandria, he established himself at Ephesus, … - Theodor Meynert
Theodor Meynert (1833-1892) was a German-Austrian neuropathologist and anatomist who was born in Dresden. He is remembered as an early mentor of Sigmund Freud. Freud worked at Meynert's Psychiatric Clinic in Vienna in 1883. Meynert later distanced himself from Freud because of the latter's involvement with practices such as hypnosis. Also Meynert ridiculed Freud's idea of male hysteria. - Auguste Ambroise Tardieu
Tardieu's ecchymoses, subpleural spots of ecchymosis that follow the death of a newborn child by strangulation or suffocation, were first described by Tardieu in 1859. - Johann Friedrich Meckel
Johann Friedrich Meckel, often referred to as Johann Friedrich Meckel, the Younger (October 17, 1781 - October 31, 1833) was a German anatomist who was born in Halle. In 1802 he received his medical doctorate in Halle, and from 1808 until his death in 1833 was a professor of pathology, anatomy and surgery at the University of Halle. - Howard Taylor Ricketts
Howard Taylor Ricketts (1871-1910) was an American pathologist after whom the Rickettsiaceae family and the Rickettsiales are named. In the earlier part of his career, Ricketts undertook research at Northwestern University on blastomycosis and later at the University of Chicago on and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. - Marie François Xavier Bichat
Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist, was born at Thoirette (Jura). Bichat is best remembered as the father of modern histology and pathology. Despite the fact that he worked without a microscope he was able to advance a great deal understanding of human body. He was the first to introduce the notion of "tissu" (tissues) as distinct entities. He maintained that diseases attacked tissues rather than whole organs. - Hiltrud Strasser
Dr. Hiltrud Strasser (n. 1943, Leipzig, Germany) is a German veterinarian, who has worked for many years on the anatomy, physiology, pathology and rehabilitation of horses' feet. She has published papers and books on this topic from the 1980's. Her primary interest is foot balance and trimming, especially in relation to barefoot trimming and remedial trimming of foot conditions such as laminitis and navicular syndrome. - Harry Brookes Allen
Sir Harry Brookes Allen (13 June 1854 - 28 March 1926), was a noted Australian pathologist. - Felix Hoppe-Seyler
Ernst Felix Immanuel Hoppe-Seyler (born December 26, 1825 in Freyburg an der Unstrut, Germany; died August 10, 1895 in Wasserburg am Bodensee) was a German physiologist and chemist. He originally trained to be a physician, and received his medical doctorate from Berlin in 1851. Afterwards, he was an assistant to Rudolf Virchow at the Pathological Institute in Berlin. Hoppe-Seyler preferred scientific research to medicine, and later held positions in anatomy, …
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