pathology
Pathology is the study of disease. The word ''pathology'' also refers to the study of disease in general, incorporating a wide range of biology research fields and medical practices. However, when used in the context of modern medical treatme ...
Ludwig Aschoff
Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (10 January 1866 – 24 June 1942) was a German physician and pathologist. He is considered to be one of the most influential pathologists of the early 20th century and is regarded as the most important German patholo ...
(1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the
Atrioventricular node
The atrioventricular node (AV node, or Aschoff-Tawara node) electrically connects the heart's atria and ventricles to coordinate beating in the top of the heart; it is part of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The AV node lies at the ...
* Matthew Baillie (17611823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying
transposition of the great vessels
Transposition of the great vessels (TGV) is a group of congenital heart defects involving an abnormal spatial arrangement of any of the great vessels: superior and/or inferior venae cavae, pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta. Congen ...
academic
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
Nobel laureate
The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...
in Physiology or Medicine 1906
* Francis Camps (1905–1972), English forensic pathologist.
* Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953), American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease).
* Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807–1850), German physician, pathologist, and medical author.
* Marie Cassidy (born 1959), Irish forensic pathologist.
* Benjamin Castleman (1906–1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
* Jamie Chapman (1970–present), Australian ground-breaking histologist.
* Hans Chiari (1851–1916), Austrian pathologist (see Arnold–Chiari malformation,
Budd–Chiari syndrome
Budd–Chiari syndrome is a condition when an occlusion or obstruction in the hepatic veins prevent normal outflow of blood from the liver.
The symptoms are non-specific and vary widely, but it may present with the classical triad of abdomin ...
Councilman body
In pathology, a Councilman body, also known as a Councilman hyaline body or apoptotic body, is an eosinophilic globule of apoptosis, apoptotic hepatocyte cell fragments. Ultimately, the fragments are taken up by macrophages or adjacent parenchymal ...
Oxford University
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...
* Karl Joseph Eberth (1835–1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist.
* William E. Ehrich (1900–1967), German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich (; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure fo ...
(1854–1915), German physician, researcher and pathologist,
Nobel laureate
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, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
* Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), Austrian pathologist (see Erdheim–Chester disease).
* James Ewing (1866–1943), American surgical pathologist, first professor of pathology at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...
chemotherapy
Chemotherapy (often abbreviated chemo, sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs (list of chemotherapeutic agents, chemotherapeutic agents or alkylating agents) in a standard chemotherapy re ...
, and after whom the
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
Dana–Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) is a comprehensive cancer treatment and research center in Boston, Massachusetts. Dana-Farber is the founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, Harvard's Comprehensive Cancer Center designated ...
Nobel laureate
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Nikolaus Friedreich
Nikolaus Friedreich (1 July 1825 in Würzburg – 6 July 1882 in Heidelberg) was a German pathologist and neurologist, and a third generation physician in the Friedreich family. His father was psychiatrist Johann Baptist Friedreich (1796–18 ...
(1825–1882), German pathologist and neurologist.
* August von Froriep (1849–1917), German anatomist.
* Robert Froriep (1804–1861), German anatomist and medical publisher.
micrography
Micrography (from Greek language, Greek, literally small-writing – "Μικρογραφία"), also called microcalligraphy, is a Jewish form of calligrams developed in the 9th century, with parallels in Christianity and Islam,Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (see Giemsa stain)
* Anthony Gill (born 1972), Australian pathologist and medical researcher
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Camillo Golgi
Camillo Golgi (; 7 July 184321 January 1926) was an Italian biologist and pathologist known for his works on the central nervous system. He studied medicine at the University of Pavia (where he later spent most of his professional career) bet ...
(1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist &
Nobel laureate
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Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (; 9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist. He is credited with the discovery of the loop of Henle in the kidney. His essay, "On Miasma and Contagia," was an early argument ...
(1809–1885), German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
* Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881), Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
* Thomas Hodgkin (1798–1866), English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
* Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (1843–1924), German internist and pathologist.
* Jason Hornick, American pathologist and researcher
* Karl Hürthle (1860–1945), German physiologist and histologist.
* Helen Hart (1900–1971), American plant pathologist
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* Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularly follicular lymphoma.
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* Fujiro Katsurada (1867–1946), Japanese pathologist.
* Eduard Kaufmann (1860–1931), German pathologist.
* Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
* Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011), American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
* Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), German-Swiss pathologist.
* Julius von Kossa 19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (see Von Kossa stain).
* Leiv Kreyberg (1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
* Hans Kundrat (1845–1893), Austrian pathologist.
* Kathleen Coard (born 1952), Grenadian pathologist.
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* Paul Eston Lacy (1924–2005), former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
* Paul Langerhans (1847–1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
* William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (see
leishmaniasis
Leishmaniasis is a wide array of clinical manifestations caused by protozoal parasites of the Trypanosomatida genus ''Leishmania''. It is generally spread through the bite of Phlebotominae, phlebotomine Sandfly, sandflies, ''Phlebotomus'' an ...
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* George Lignac (1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
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Henrique da Rocha Lima
Henrique da Rocha Lima (24 November 1879 – 12 April 1956) was a Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist born in Rio de Janeiro. With his friend, Stanislaus von Prowazek, he described what would later be known as '' Rickettsia p ...
(1879–1956), Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
* James Linder (born 1954), American cytopathologist and technological developer
* Leo Loeb (1869–1959), American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
* Esmond Ray Long (1890–1970), American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian.
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* Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (see Mallory bodies)
* Rod Markin (born 1956) American pioneer in laboratory automation.
* Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928), Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
* John McCrae (1872–1918), Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of n Flanders Fields
* Frances Gertrude McGill (1882–1959), pioneering Canadian pathologist and criminologist
* Tracey McNamara, veterinary pathologist at the Bronx Zoo who played a pivotal role in identifying the first outbreak of West Nile Virus in the United States
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Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Giovanni Battista Morgagni (25 February 1682 – 6 December 1771) was an Italian anatomy, anatomist, generally regarded as the father of modern anatomical pathology, who taught thousands of medical students from many countries during his 56 year ...
(1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology
Bernhard Naunyn
Bernhard Naunyn (2 September 1839 – 26 July 1925) was a German pathologist, born in Berlin.
Biography
After receiving his degree at the University of Berlin in 1863, he became an assistant to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819� ...
(1839–1925), German pathologist.
* Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834–1918), German pathologist.
* Thomas Noguchi (born 1927), Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.
epidemiologist
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population, and application of this knowledge to prevent diseases.
It is a cornerstone ...
,
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
* Richard Paltauf (1858–1924), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
* George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear (see Pap smear)
* Artur Pappenheim (1870–1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
* Lukáš Plank (born 1951), Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
* Emil Ponfick (1844–1913), German pathologist.
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* Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922), French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer of
nodes of Ranvier
Nodes of Ranvier ( ), also known as myelin-sheath gaps, occur along a myelinated axon where the axolemma is exposed to the extracellular space. Nodes of Ranvier are uninsulated axonal domains that are high in sodium and potassium ion channels ...
Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiology, neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a ...
(1857–1952), English neuropathologist &
Nobel laureate
The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...
in Physiology or Medicine 1932
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Richard Shope
Richard Edwin Shope (December 25, 1901 – October 2, 1966) was an American virologist who, together with his mentor Paul A. Lewis at the Rockefeller Institute, identified influenzavirus A in pigs in 1931. Using Shope's technique, Smith, A ...
(1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist.
* Keith Simpson (1907–1985), English forensic pathologist.
* Maud Slye (1879–1954), American experimental pathologist.
* Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
* Kim Solez (born 1946), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
* Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877–1947), British pathologist.
* Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
* Edward Stafne (born 1894, date of death unknown), American oral pathologist (see Stafne defect).
* Allen Starry (1890–1973), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
* Javier Arias Stella (1924–2020), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
* Stephen Sternberg (1920–2021), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
* Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
* Lotte Strauss (1913–1985), American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).
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Sunao Tawara
was a Japanese pathologist known for the discovery of the atrioventricular node.
Tawara was born in Ōita Prefecture and studied at the Medical School, Imperial University of Tokyo in Tokyo, graduating in 1901 and receiving his Medical Doctor, ...
(1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the
Atrioventricular node
The atrioventricular node (AV node, or Aschoff-Tawara node) electrically connects the heart's atria and ventricles to coordinate beating in the top of the heart; it is part of the electrical conduction system of the heart. The AV node lies at the ...
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* Donald Teare (1911–1979), British pathologist.
* Jacques-René Tenon (1724–1816), French surgeon and pathologist.
* Ludwig Traube (1818–1876), German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
* Václav Treitz (1819–1872), Czech pathologist.
* Charles Emile Troisier (1844–1919), French doctor.
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* Johann Paul Uhle (1827–1861), German physician and pathologist.
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Paul Gerson Unna
Paul Gerson Unna, (September 8, 1850, Hamburg – January 29, 1929, Hamburg) was a German physician specialized in dermatologist, dermatology and one of the pioneers in dermatopathology.
Biography
Paul Unna was born to German Jewish parents Mor ...
(1850–1929), one of the founders of
dermatopathology
Dermatopathology (from Greek , ''derma'' 'skin' + , ''pathos'' 'fate, harm' + , ''-logia'' 'study of') is a joint subspecialty of dermatology and pathology or surgical pathology that focuses on the study of cutaneous diseases at a microscopic an ...
Nobel laureate
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granulomatosis with polyangiitis
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), formerly known as Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), after Nazi German physician Friedrich Wegener, is a rare, long-term, systemic disorder that involves the formation of granulomas and vasculitis, inflammatio ...
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* Anton Weichselbaum (1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
* Carl Weigert (1845–1904), developer of histochemical stains.
* Adolf Weil (1848–1916), German physician and pathologist (see Weil's disease).
* Ronald S. Weinstein (1938–2021), American pathologist, inventor, educator (see Telepathology).
* Sharon Weiss (born 1945), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (see
Sarcoma
A sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that arises from cells of mesenchymal origin. Originating from mesenchymal cells means that sarcomas are cancers of connective tissues such as bone, cartilage, muscle, fat, or vascular tissues.
Sarcom ...
aquatic ape hypothesis
The aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH), also referred to as aquatic ape theory (AAT) or the waterside hypothesis of human evolution, postulates that the ancestors of modern humans took a divergent evolutionary pathway from the other great apes by be ...
and influential on the development of pathology and social medicine in
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
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* George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator,
Nobel laureate
The Nobel Prizes (, ) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in th ...
in Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
* James Homer Wright (1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (see Wright stain).
* Guy Alfred Wyon (1883–1924), English pathologist, one of the team which resolved the issue of potentially-fatal TNT poisoning in
shell
Shell may refer to:
Architecture and design
* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
Science Biology
* Seashell, a hard outer layer of a marine ani ...
factories during
World War I
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...
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* Yamagiwa Katsusaburō (1863–1930) Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.