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Born March 4, 1754 • Newport • Rhode Island
Died October 2, 1846 (aged 92) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Ingenhousz, detail of an engraving
Jan Ingenhousz
Dutch scientist
Zabdiel Boylston
American physician
Gerty Cori
American biochemist
Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
William B. Castle
American physician
David Bruce
British physician
Carl Cori
American biochemist
Ferdinand von Hebra
Moravian physician
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
Armauer Hansen
Norwegian physician
Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
William Claire Menninger
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
William James Mayo
American physician