streptomycin
cancer research; Wolf Prize in Medicine (2005)
hematologist and co-discoverer of the Rh factor
Austrian Jew who was a close colleague of Freud in the development of psychoanalysis. Broke with him to found his own school. (1870-1937)
ophthalmologist
biochemist, Nobel Prize (1994)
virologist, interferon
Handicap Principle
Head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer organizations. A former Wall Street star, she has utilized her talents to turn NABCO into the leading central information source on breast cancer.
(19021994) microbiologist, Nobel Prize (1965)
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.
pediatric surgeon, separation of conjoined twins (1968)
ubiquitin system; Lasker Award (2000), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2004)
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).
neuropsychiatrist, Recovery International founder
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.
structure of ribosome. She received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009)
pediatrician, diphtheria researcher
dermatologist
physician, discovered the cause of gonorrhea (Jewish father)
