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Also Known As Patrick Christopher Steptoe
Born June 9, 1913 • England
Died March 21, 1988 (aged 74) • Canterbury • England
Subjects Of Study in vitro fertilization • infertility • laparoscopy
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Robert Edwards and Louise Brown
Robert Edwards
British medical researcher
Soranus Of Ephesus
Greek physician
Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
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British physician
Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Denis Parsons Burkitt
British physician
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain
British biochemist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Hawa Abdi, 2013
Hawa Abdi
Somalian physician, lawyer, and activist
Dean Ornish, 2011.
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American physician
Robert J. Lefkowitz.
Robert J. Lefkowitz
American physician and biologist
Bert Vogelstein
American oncologist
Ohsumi, Yoshinori
Yoshinori Ohsumi
Japanese biologist
Andrew Weil
American physician
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
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Severino Antinori
Italian gynecologist and embryologist
James P. Allison
American immunologist
Lanza, Robert P.
Robert P. Lanza
American scientist
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician