A list of people notable in the field of pathology.
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John Abercrombie, Scottish physician, neuropathologist and philosopher. Maude Abbott (1869–1940), Canadian pathologist, one of the earliest women graduated in medicine, expert in congenital heart diseases. Emile Achard (1860–1944), French internist and pathologist. A. Bernard Ackerman (1936–2008), American dermatopathologist & dermatologist Lauren Ackerman (1905–1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers of Surgical pathology. Theodor Ackermann (1825–1896), German pathologist. Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz (1850–1921), Polish pathologist, (see Artery of Adamkiewicz). W. Stewart Alexander, contemporary British pathologist (see Alexander disease). Dame Ingrid Allen, Northern Irish neuropathologist. Friedrich August von Ammon (1799–1861), German ophthalmologist and pathologist. Gabriel Andral (1797–1876) French pathologist. Nikolay Anichkov (1885–1964), Russian pathologist. Julius Arnold (1835–1915), German pathologist. Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942), German pathologist, discoverer of the Aschoff body and the Atrioventricular node in the heart. Max Askanazy (1865–1940), German pathologist (see Askanazy cell). E. Ask-Upmark, 20th-century Swedish pathologist (see Ask-Upmark kidney).
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Matthew Baillie (17611823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifying transposition of the great vessels and situs inversus. Heinrich von Bamberger (1822–1888), Austrian pathologist from Prague. Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848–1928), German pathologist. John Bruce Beckwith (born 1933), American pathologist (see Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome). Antonio di Paolo Benivieni (14431502), Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy and many medical historians have considered him a founder of pathology. Franz Best (1878–1920), German pathologist (see Best's disease). Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), French anatomist and physiologist, remembered as father of modern histology and pathology. Max Bielschowsky (1869–1940), German neuropathologist & developer of histochemical stains. Edmund Biernacki (1866–1912), Polish pathologist (see Biernacki Reaction). Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld (1842–1899), German pathologist. Giulio Bizzozero (1846–1901), Italian doctor and medical researcher. Otto Bollinger (1843–1909), German pathologist. Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837–1915), French pathologist. William Boyd (1885–1979), Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author of several 20th-century textbooks on general and surgical pathology. Erich Franz Eugen Bracht (1882–1969), German pathologist and gynaecologist. Fritz Brenner (1877–1969), German pathologist (see Brenner tumor). Alexander Breslow (1928–1980), American pathologist (see Breslow's depth). Richard Bright (1789–1858), British internist and pathologist (see Bright's disease). Ludwig von Buhl (1816–1880), German pathologist.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852–1934), Spanish pathologist and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1906 Francis Camps (1905–1972), English forensic pathologist. Myrtelle Canavan (1879–1953), American physician, medical researcher, and one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease). Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807–1850), German physician, pathologist, and medical author. Marie Cassidy (born 1959), Irish forensic pathologist. Benjamin Castleman (1906–1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease. Jamie Chapman (1970–present), Australian ground-breaking histologist. Hans Chiari (1851–1916), Austrian pathologist (see Arnold–Chiari malformation, Budd–Chiari syndrome). Jacob Churg (1910–2005), Russian-born American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome). Giuseppe Vincenzo Ciaccio (1824–1901), Italian anatomist and histologist. Julius Friedrich Cohnheim (1839–1884), German pathologist known for his research on the mechanism of inflammation and the study of circulation. Albert Coons (1912–1978), American physician, immunologist, & immunopathologist. Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist. Victor André Cornil (1837–1908), French pathologist and histologist. Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician & pathologist (see Corrigan's pulse). Ramzi Cotran, American pathologist William Thomas Councilman (1854–1933), American pathologist (see Councilman body). Jean Cruveilhier (1791–1874), French anatomist and pathologist (see Cruveilhier's sign, Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease).