Flashcards: Pathologists

Georgios Nikolaou Papanikolaou (or George Papanicolaou; Greek: Γεώργιος Ν. Παπανικολάου; 13 May 1883 – 19 February 1962) was a Greek pioneer in cytopathology and early cancer detection, and inventor of the "Pap smear".

Pornthip Rojanasunand was born in Bangkok, Thailand and grew up to be one of the most powerful and important forensics pathologists.

Rudolf Spanner (born 17 April 1895 in Metternich bei Koblenz; died 1960) was Director of the Danzig Anatomical Institute during World War II.

Javier Arias Stella (born August 2, 1924) is a Peruvian pathologist who discovered the eponymous "Arias-Stella reaction" (or "phenomenon").

Professor Dorothy Stuart Russell (29 June 1895 – 19 October 1983) was a British pathologist.

Edna Hague Fawcett (1879 – 1960) was an American botanist and specialist on plant health problems.

Alimuddin Zumla BSc MB ChB MSc PhD FRCP(UK) FRCPath(UK) FRSB(UK) is professor of infectious diseases and international health at University College London Medical School.

Charles Lee is Director and Professor of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine and a board certified clinical cytogeneticist who has an active research program in the identification and characterization of structural genomic variants using advanced technology platforms.

Shields Warren (26 February 1898 – 1 July 1980) was an American pathologist.

James E. Collins (born 1953, in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American veterinary physician and academic.

Charles Smart Roy (January 21, 1854 - October 4, 1897) was a British professor of pathology who worked at the University of Cambridge.

Alfredo Kanthack BA (Lond), BSc, BS, MA (Cantab), MB, MD, LRCP, FRCP, FRCS (1863-1898) was a Brazilian-born microbiologist and pathologist who worked in England.

Julius Dreschfeld FRCP (13 October 1845 – 13 June 1907) was a leading British physician and pathologist.

Barnet Mortimer Levy (January 13, 1917 – March 7, 2014) was an American oral pathologist and professor at universities in the United States and Mexico.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1946) is a Colombian Professor of Pathology and Immunology who made the world's first attempt to create a synthetic vaccine against a parasite called the protozoa Plasmodium falciparum that causes severe malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects millions of people and is one of the leading causes of death (~1.5 million people per year) in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

Karl-Wolfgang Zschiesche (14 March 1933 – 29 October 1996) was a German physician and pathologist.

Etienne de Harven, MD is a Belgian-born pathologist and electron microscopist.

Lukáš Plank (born 1951) is a Slovak medical researcher, pathologist and author.

Dr. David Weedon, AO is a physician and dermatopathologist located in Queensland, Australia, where he was born in 1942.

Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans CMG (3 September 1879 – 16 October 1968) was a Welsh-born South African botanist.