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This dimension names the person credited with a specific medical discovery. Wikipedia notes that "invention of the microscope was a consequence of improved understanding, during the Renaissance," one of many medical discoveries credited to a named figure. Browsing this way collects every discovery credited to the same person.

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Adolf Kussmaul

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Ake Senning

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Albert Calmette

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Albert Hustin

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Albert Sabin

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Albert Schatz

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Alexander Fleming

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Alexandre Yersin

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Allan MacLeod Cormack

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Archibald Garrod

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Barry Marshall

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Carl-Olof Nylen

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Carlos Finlay

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Charles Best

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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

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Charles Richet

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Christiaan Eijkman

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Crawford Long

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Edward Calvin Kendall

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Edward Jenner

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Emil von Behring

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Ernest Starling

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Ernst Boris Chain

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Francis Crick

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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

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Frederick Banting

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Frederick Gowland Hopkins

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Georg Kelling

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Gerhard Domagk

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Godfrey Hounsfield

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Hakaru Hashimoto

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Hans Berger

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Horace Wells

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Howard Florey

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Ian Donald

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Ibn al-Nafis

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Ignaz Semmelweis

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John Gibbon

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Jonas Salk

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Joseph Lister

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Karl Joseph Eberth

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Karl Landsteiner

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Kurt Semm

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Louis Pasteur

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Luc Montagnier

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Luis Agote

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Marshall Nirenberg

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Martinus Beijerinck

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Maurice Wilkins

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Michael DeBakey

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Oswald Avery

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Paul Ehrlich

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Paul Portier

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Peter Medawar

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Philip Showalter Hench

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Rene Laennec

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Robert Koch

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Robin Warren

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Ronald Ross

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Rosalind Franklin

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Rudolf Virchow

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Rune Elmqvist

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Scipione Riva-Rocci

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Selman Waksman

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Stanley Prusiner

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Takuo Aoyagi

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Victor Horsley

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Walter Reed

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Werner Forssmann

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Willem Einthoven

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William B. Kouwenhoven

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William Bayliss

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William Halsted

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William Harvey

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William Morton

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Sources
A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC Press
  • Contains: Identification of the Malaria Parasite
  • Contains: Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter, W. W. Norton and Company, 1997Contains: Isolation of HIV
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