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Born April 15, 1786 • Newport • Rhode Island
Died July 27, 1876 (aged 90) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Notable Family Members brother William Ellery Channing
Rebecca Lee Dorsey
American physician
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
Crawford Williamson Long
American physician
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
William Thomas Green Morton administering ether anesthesia
William Thomas Green Morton
American surgeon
Peter Chamberlen, the Elder
French surgeon
Albert Bruce Sabin
American physician and microbiologist
Jonas Salk; polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
American physician and medical researcher
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Cleveland, Emeline Horton
Emeline Horton Cleveland
American physician
Virginia Apgar.
Virginia Apgar
American physician
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Gardner Quincy Colton
American anesthetist and inventor
Kellogg, John Harvey
John Harvey Kellogg
American physician and nutritionist
George Herbert Hitchings
American scientist
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
André F. Cournand
American physiologist