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Leon Pinsker

Leon Pinsker

Leon Pinsker - Leon Pinsker was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion (Hebrew: חיבת ציון‎, Lovers of Zion) movement.

A. L. Mestel

A. L. Mestel - pediatric surgeon, separation of conjoined twins (1968)

Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover - ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)

Abraham Flexner

Abraham Flexner - The most important reformer in the history of American medicine. In the early 1900s, he spent two years examining over 150 institutions for the training of physicians and didnt like what he saw. Around 1910, He issued the "Flexner Report" which indicted medical education as poorly supervised, poorly taught, without a standard curriculum, etc. As a result of his work, medical education throughout the USA was completely revised, leading to the modern medical school as we know it. He also convinced Dept. Store magnate Louis Bamberger to provide the endowment for the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton (later the home of Albert Einstein).

Abraham Low

Abraham Low - neuropsychiatrist, Recovery International founder

Abraham Yitzhak

Abraham Yitzhak - Jewogle saw a mention of this physician and he is worthy of note even if he is not famous for his medical work. Last year he became the first Ethopian immigrant to Israel to obtain his medical degree.

Ada Yonath

Ada Yonath - structure of ribosome. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)

Adolph Baginsky

Adolph Baginsky - pediatrician, diphtheria researcher

Albert Kligman

Albert Kligman - dermatologist

Albert Neisser

Albert Neisser - physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea (Jewish father)

Albert Sabin

Albert Sabin - Discover of the "live" form of the polio vaccine, the most common form used today. Sabin was born in Poland in 1906 and came to the US in 1921. He is not popularly given as much credit as Jonas Salk, but the "live" form of the vaccine made world wide immunization possible. It does not require refrigeration and can be taken on a sugar cube--eliminating the need for countless needles or sterilization facilities. Sabin died in 1995.

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Leon Pinsker

Leon Pinsker was a physician, a Zionist pioneer and activist, and the founder and leader of the Hovevei Zion, also known as Hibbat Zion (Hebrew: חיבת ציון‎, Lovers of Zion) movement.

A. L. Mestel

pediatric surgeon, separation of conjoined twins (1968)

Aaron Ciechanover

ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)

Abraham Flexner

The most important reformer in the history of American medicine. In the early 1900s, he spent two years examining over 150 institutions for the training of physicians and didnt like what he saw. Around 1910, He issued the "Flexner Report" which indicted medical education as poorly supervised, poorly taught, without a standard curriculum, etc. As a result of his work, medical education throughout the USA was completely revised, leading to the modern medical school as we know it. He also convinced Dept. Store magnate Louis Bamberger to provide the endowment for the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton (later the home of Albert Einstein).

Abraham Low

neuropsychiatrist, Recovery International founder

Abraham Yitzhak

Jewogle saw a mention of this physician and he is worthy of note even if he is not famous for his medical work. Last year he became the first Ethopian immigrant to Israel to obtain his medical degree.

Ada Yonath

structure of ribosome. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)

Adolph Baginsky

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Albert Kligman

dermatologist

Albert Neisser

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