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All Science & Mathematics Medicine & Public Health

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

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Elizabeth Blackwell 1821–1910Medicine & Public HealthFirst woman to receive a medical degree in the United States and a pioneer of women’s medical education.Vivien Thomas 1910–1985Medicine & Public HealthDevised the blue-baby heart operation without a medical degree, and went unnamed on the paper.

William Osler 1849–1919Medicine & Public HealthBuilt bedside clinical teaching into American medical education as a founding Johns Hopkins professor.

Martin Seligman b. 1942Medicine & Public HealthLearned helplessness and the founding of positive psychology

William Stewart Halsted 1852–1922Medicine & Public HealthEstablished aseptic surgical technique and the American surgical residency training system.