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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
William Farr
British physician
Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Zsuzsanna Jakab
Hungarian epidemiologist
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Sydenham, detail of an oil painting by Mary Beale, 1688; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Sydenham
British physician
Thomas Francis, Jr.
American microbiologist
Baillou, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1580
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
Hans Zinsser
American bacteriologist and epidemiologist
Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau
French physician