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Silvano Raia (born 1930), Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989; B. K. Misra (born 1953), First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
George E. Goodfellow (1855–1910) — recognized as first U.S. civilian trauma surgeon, expert in gunshot wound treatment; Henry Gray (1827–1861) — English anatomist and surgeon, creator of Gray's Anatomy; Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) — physician and anatomist; William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician, described the circulatory ...
Beginning in the 1840s, European surgery began to change dramatically in character with the discovery of effective and practical anesthetic chemicals such as ether, first used by the American surgeon Crawford Long (1815–1878), and chloroform, discovered by James Young Simpson (1811–1870) and later pioneered in England by John Snow (1813 ...
This list compiles the names of neurologists and neurosurgeons with a corresponding Wikipedia biographical article, and is not necessarily a reflection of their relative importance in the field. Many neurologists and neurosurgeons are considered to be neuroscientists as well and some neurologists are also in the list of psychiatrists.
Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
Robert Liston FRCSE FRCS FRS (28 October 1794 – 7 December 1847) [1] was a British surgeon.Liston was noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival.
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. [1] His career spanned nearly eight decades.
Erichsen was professor of surgery [7] and author of the 1853 Science and Art of Surgery, [61] described as one of the most celebrated English-language textbooks on surgery. [60] The book went through many editions; Marcus Beck edited the eighth and ninth, adding Lister's antiseptic techniques and Pasteur and Robert Koch's germ theory. [62]