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Ian Gust

Ian David Gust AO MD, BS, BSc, DipBact, FRCPA, FRACP, MASM, FT (born 15 January 1941) is an Australian medical researcher, virologist, and former science administrator.


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Chester Hill, New South Wales

Christian Heim - Composer and medical researcher who grew up in Chester Hill.

Emily Rose

Emily Rosa (born 1987), American skeptic and medical researcher

Gajdusek

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008), American physician and medical researcher

George Ludwig

George Döring Ludwig, M.D. (January 4, 1922 – November 24, 1973) was an American professor of medicine and medical researcher noted for developing the first application of ultrasound to the human body for medical purposes, at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, in the late 1940s.

Green report

The Green report was a report written by Andrew Conway Ivy, a medical researcher and vice president of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Hetzel

Basil Hetzel, an Australian medical researcher who has made a major contribution to combating iodine deficiency

Irving Selikoff

Irving J. Selikoff (1915 in New York City – May 20, 1992 in Ridgewood, New Jersey) was a medical researcher who in the 1960s established a link between the inhalation of asbestos particles and lung-related ailments.

John Sampson

John A. Sampson (1873–1946), American gynecologist and medical researcher

Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips supported Dr Andrew Wakefield, the medical researcher who questioned the safety of the MMR vaccine given to children to immunise them against Measles, Mumps, and Rubella.

Numerary

Pedro Laín Entralgo is an outstanding Spanish medical researcher and humanist of the 20th century.

Ochsner

Alton Ochsner (1896–1981), American surgeon and medical researcher who founded the Ochsner Foundation Hospital

Richard D. Feinman

Richard David Feinman (born 1940) is a professor of biochemistry and medical researcher at State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, better known as SUNY Downstate Medical Center who studies nutrition and metabolism.

Third plague pandemic

The British colonial government in India pressed medical researcher Waldemar Haffkine to develop a plague vaccine.

Wiesel

Torsten Wiesel (born 1924), Swedish medical researcher, Nobel Prize in Medicine co-laureate, campaigner for human rights

Wolfgang von Weisl

He was writer and a journalist, a physician and medical researcher, a military man and an original military strategist, an Austrian noble and a world expert in Islam.

Zanvil A. Cohn

Moberg and Steinman say that he was motivated by Paul de Kruif’s book Microbe Hunters and by Sinclair Lewis’s novel Arrowsmith, as well as by his experiences with penicillin on the Liberty ships, to become a doctor and medical researcher.