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Born March 25, 1863 • Louisville • Kentucky
Died May 2, 1946 (aged 83) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study Shigella dysenteriae type 1 • meningococcal meningitis • therapeutics
Walter Reed
Walter Reed
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Agramonte y Simoni, Aristides
Aristides Agramonte y Simoni
Cuban-American scientist
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt
American pathologist
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
German scientist
Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug
American scientist
Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
United States statesman and physician
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Oswald Avery.
Oswald Avery
American bacteriologist
Elizabeth Stern
Canadian pathologist
Smith, Theobald
Theobald Smith
American pathologist
Alice Evans
American scientist
Eugene Lindsay Opie
American pathologist
William Henry Welch
American physician
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot
American physician
Howard T. Ricketts
American pathologist
David Hendricks Bergey
American bacteriologist
Martha Wollstein
American physician
William P. Murphy
American physician