Gazi Yaşargil

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon and medical scientist, born on 6 July 1925 and died on 10 June 2025. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery, and he treated epilepsy and brain tumours using instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993 he served first as resident, then as chief resident, and finally as professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999 the Congress of Neurological Surgeons honoured him as Neurosurgery's Man of the Century for 1950 to 1999 at its annual meeting. He was also a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.