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All Science & Mathematics Medicine & Public Health

Role: Any Physician 29 Public Health Leader 12 Biologist 10 Educator 5 Chemist 4

Order: Most notable By term A–Z Born earliest Born latest Longest lived Shortest lived

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Francis Collins b. 1950Medicine & Public HealthLed the public Human Genome Project and directed the National Institutes of Health

Katalin Karikó b. 1955Medicine & Public HealthBiochemist whose work on modified messenger RNA enabled highly effective mRNA vaccines and new therapeutic platforms.

Selman Waksman 1888–1973Medicine & Public HealthRan the soil-screening programme that produced streptomycin, the first effective treatment for tuberculosis.

Maurice Hilleman 1919–2005Medicine & Public HealthVirologist who developed or improved more than forty vaccines, preventing millions of deaths and transforming public health.Albert Schatz 1920–2005Medicine & Public HealthIsolated streptomycin, the first drug effective against tuberculosis, and went to court for the credit.

Drew Weissman b. 1959Medicine & Public HealthImmunologist whose collaboration with Katalin Karikó made mRNA vaccines practical and safe.

Mary-Claire King b. 1946Medicine & Public HealthGeneticist who identified the BRCA1 locus and applied DNA science to human-rights investigations.

Stanley Prusiner b. 1942Medicine & Public HealthNeurologist who discovered prions, establishing a new biological mechanism for infectious neurodegenerative disease.

Baruch Blumberg 1925–2011Medicine & Public HealthPhysician-scientist whose discovery of the hepatitis B virus led to diagnostic tests and a widely used vaccine.

Florence R. Sabin 1871–1953Medicine & Public HealthPioneering medical researcher and public-health reformer who advanced knowledge of the lymphatic and immune systems.