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Born May 2, 1866 • Baltimore • Maryland
Died September 26, 1900 (aged 34) • Cuba
Subjects Of Study mosquito • carrier • yellow fever
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Sir Ronald Ross, bronze relief by Frank Bowcher, 1929; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Ronald Ross
British doctor
Portrait of Colonel John Shaw Billings, M.D.
John Shaw Billings
American surgeon and librarian
Theiler, Max
Max Theiler
American microbiologist
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Nicolle, Charles-Jules-Henri
Charles-Jules-Henri Nicolle
French bacteriologist
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
William Claire Menninger
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
William James Mayo
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
William B. Castle
American physician
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon