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Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet
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Born January 11, 1814 • Great Yarmouth • England
Died December 30, 1899 (aged 85) • London • England
Subjects Of Study Paget disease of bone • Paget’s disease • tumour

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John Hunter
British surgeon
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Peter J. Ratcliffe
British physician and scientist
Lord Florey.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Australian pathologist
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
British physiologist
William G. Kaelin, Jr.
American physician and medical researcher
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician
Peter C. Doherty
Australian scientist
Rolf M. Zinkernagel.
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Swiss scientist
Egas Moniz
António Egas Moniz
Portuguese neurologist
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Robin Warren
Australian pathologist
Charles B. Huggins at work in a laboratory at the University of Chicago, c. 1965.
Charles B. Huggins
American surgeon and medical researcher
Eijkman
Christiaan Eijkman
Dutch physician
Werner Forssmann
German physician
Fibiger
Johannes Fibiger
Danish pathologist
Kocher, c. 1900
Emil Theodor Kocher
Swiss surgeon
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist

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