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Born November 21, 1868 • New York City • New York • (Born on this day)
Died September 30, 1939 (aged 70) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study childhood diseases and disorders
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Helen Brooke Taussig
American physician
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
Peyton Rous.
Peyton Rous
American pathologist
George Frederick Dick
American physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Miroslav Holub
Czech poet, pathologist and immunologist
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
William Prout
British chemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860
Frans Cornelis Donders
Dutch ophthalmologist
Laveran
Alphonse Laveran
French physician and pathologist