Pathologists who defined diseases by what they do to cells and tissues: Virchow and cellular pathology, Golgi and Cajal in the microscopic study of the nervous system, Hodgkin and Wilks in the description of lymph and kidney disease, Papanicolaou and his smear, Hashimoto and Eberth in thyroid and typhoid pathology and Robin Warren in the discovery of Helicobacter. A person belongs here when the cited article describes a pathologist or histologist of the modern period. It excludes the earlier anatomists.
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Paul Langerhans (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist, physiologist and biologist
View the Source Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist born in Gütersloh, Westphalia
View the Source Friedrich Wegener (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist who is notable
View the Source James Paget (Wikipedia)
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one of the founders of scientific medical pathology
View the Source Nikolaus Friedreich (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist and neurologist
View the Source Ludwig Aschoff (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician and pathologist
View the Source Richard Altmann (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist and histologist from Deutsch Eylau in the Province of Prussia
View the Source Paul Gerson Unna (Wikipedia)
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one of the pioneers in dermatopathology
View the Source Jack Kevorkian (Wikipedia)
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was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent
View the Source Carl Benda (Wikipedia)
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From 1908 to 1925 at the Institute of Pathology Krankenhaus Moabit.
View the Source Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (Wikipedia)
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was a German-Jewish pathologist.
View the Source Walter Pagel (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist and medical historian.
View the Source Christian Georg Schmorl (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist who was a native of Mügeln in the Kingdom of Saxony.
View the Source Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (Wikipedia)
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was a German pathologist born in Aurich.
View the Source Hieronymus David Gaubius (Wikipedia)
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Institutiones Pathologiae medicinalis, a 1758 textbook on systematic pathology that remained popular for many years
View the Source Paul Grawitz (source article)
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was a German pathologist
View the Source Friedrich Albert von Zenker (source article)
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In 1862 he became professor of pathological anatomy and pharmacology at Erlangen.
View the Source Karl Otto Weber (Wikipedia)
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As a pathological anatomist, Weber specialized in the fields of histology and histogenesis.
View the Source Friedrich Ernst Krukenberg (source article)
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described a fibrosarcoma of the ovary that was to become known as a Krukenberg tumor
View the Source Edgar von Gierke (Wikipedia)
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was a German Jewish pathologist who specialized in glycogenesis and discovered glycogen storage disease type I
View the Source Morris Simmonds (Wikipedia)
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was a German physician and pathologist
View the Source Theodor Langhans (Wikipedia)
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Langhans is remembered for his discovery of multi-nucleated giant cells that are found in granulomatous conditions
View the Source Otmar Wiestler (Wikipedia)
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full professor and chair for Neuropathology
View the Source Felix Jacob Marchand (source article)
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he became a professor of pathological anatomy in Giessen
View the Source Benno Reinhardt (Wikipedia)
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He is known for his contributions to pathology
View the Source Carl Arnold Ruge (Wikipedia)
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He is credited for contributions made in the early detection of uterine cancer.
View the Source Camillo Golgi (Wikipedia)
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Camillo Golgi (, Italian: [kaˈmilːo ˈɡɔldʒi]; 7 July 1843-21 January 1926) was an Italian biologist and pathologist who was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his works on the central nervous system.
View the Source Georgios Papanikolaou (Wikipedia)
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Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou ; Greek: Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου [papanikoˈlau]; 13 May 1883-19 February 1962) was a Greek physician, zoologist and microscopist who was a pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the pap smear for detection of cervical cancer.
View the Source Wikipedia: Hakaru Hashimoto
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He is best known for publishing the first description of the disease that was later named Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
View the Source Wikipedia: Karl Joseph Eberth
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Karl Joseph Eberth (21 September 1835-2 December 1926) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who was a native of Würzburg.
View the Source Robin Warren (Wikipedia)
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John Robin Warren (11 June 1937-23 July 2024) was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall.
View the Source Rudolf Virchow (Wikipedia)
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He is known as "the father of modern pathology" and as the founder of social medicine, and to his colleagues, the "Pope of medicine".
View the Source Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Wikipedia
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo raˈmon i kaˈxal]; 1 May 1852-17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specialising in neuroanatomy, and the central nervous system.
View the Source Wikipedia: Thomas Hodgkin
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Thomas Hodgkin RMS (17 August 1798-5 April 1866) was an English physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine.
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