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Segev, Dorry
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
James D. Hardy
American surgeon
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Murray, Joseph E.
Joseph E. Murray
American physiologist
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
South African surgeon
Ross Granville Harrison
American zoologist
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Peter B. Medawar, 1960.
Sir Peter B. Medawar
British zoologist

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