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Born October 8, 1826 • Bristol • England
Died September 7, 1910 (aged 83) • Maine
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
British American physician
Eliza Maria Mosher.
Eliza Maria Mosher
American physician and educator
Preston, Ann
Ann Preston
American physician and educator
Clara Marshall
American physician and educator
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Sir Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquarian
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
William B. Castle
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
William James Mayo
American physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Thomas Hunt Morgan
American biologist
Hans Bethe.
Hans Bethe
American physicist
Susan La Flesche Picotte
Susan La Flesche Picotte
American physician and reformer