Subcategories - Doctors, Physicians, Nurses

  1. Guy de Chauliac
  2. Harvey Williams Cushing
  3. Havelock Ellis
  4. Herophilus
  5. Hippocrates
  6. Horsfall Announces That Cancer Results from Alterations in the DNA of Cells
  7. Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
  8. Imhotep
  9. Isaacs and Lindenmann Discover Interferons
  10. Jacobsen Introduces a Drug for the Treatment of Alcoholism
  11. Jonas Salk
  12. Joseph Lister
  13. Koch Isolates Microorganisms That Cause Tuberculosis and Cholera
  14. Landsteiner Discovers Human Blood Groups
  15. Landsteiner Identifies Rhesus Factor
  16. Lillian D. Wald
  17. Lister Promotes Antiseptic Surgery
  18. Maria Montessori
  19. McLean Discovers the Natural Anticoagulant Heparin
  20. Medical Researchers Develop and Test Promising Drugs for the Treatment of AIDS Patients
  21. Michael Servetus
  22. Moniz Develops Prefrontal Lobotomy
  23. New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children Opens
  24. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  25. Papanicolaou Develops the Pap Test for Diagnosing Uterine Cancer
  26. Paul Ehrlich
  27. Paul of Aegina
  28. Pedanius Dioscorides
  29. Practical Contact Lenses Are Developed
  30. Reed Establishes That Yellow Fever Is Transmitted by Mosquitoes
  31. Robert Koch
  32. Ronald Ross
  33. Rous Discovers That Some Cancers Are Caused by Viruses
  34. Rudolf Virchow
  35. Salk Develops a Polio Vaccine
  36. Samuel Hahnemann
  37. Schick Introduces the Schick Test for Diphtheria
  38. Schweitzer Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
  39. Scientists Find Interferon, Drug That Fights Multiple Sclerosis
  40. Scientists Trace HIV to Chimpanzees
  41. Senning Invents Implanted Heart Pacemaker
  42. Shock Waves Are Used to Pulverize Kidney Stones
  43. Sir Macfarlane Burnet
  44. Sir William Osler
  45. Steenbock Discovers That Sunlight Increases Vitamin D in Food
  46. Suppression of Yellow Fever
  47. Surgeon General Koop Urges AIDS Education
  48. Susan La Flesche
  49. Susan La Flesche Picotte
  50. Suśruta, Indian Physician, Writes Medical Compendium