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Also Known As Albrecht Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst von Gräfe
Born May 22, 1828 • Berlin • Germany
Died July 20, 1870 (aged 42) • Berlin • Germany
Subjects Of Study Gräfe’s sign
anesthesia
Carl Koller
American surgeon
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860
Frans Cornelis Donders
Dutch ophthalmologist
Gullstrand
Allvar Gullstrand
Swedish ophthalmologist
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
Russian physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
“The father of the Paralympic movement”
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon
Werner Forssmann
German physician
Karl von Gräfe, engraving by G. Metzeroth, c. 1845, after a portrait by an unknown artist
Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe
German surgeon
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
German surgeon
William James Mayo
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
Johannes von Mikulicz-Radecki
Polish surgeon
Charles William Mayo
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
American neurosurgeon and politician