Shown here is Francis Crick of England. Together with Watson of the United States, Crick was like a Sherlock Holmes of biochemistry. They discovered the structure of DNA and won the Nobel Prize.
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Shown here is Hippocrates from ancient Greece. He wrote the famous Hippocratic oath.
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This is Philippe Pinel of France. Pinel was both a brain scientist and an advocate for mental health reform. The pineal gland in the brain was named after him. He was both a psychiatrist and a pathologist. He died in Paris.
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Shown here is the brilliant neurologist Oliver Sacks, who was born in London in 1933. Sacks is still alive. He may be the only neurologist who ever had a book ("Awakenings") made into a movie. The book is about the drug L-dopa.
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Shown here is Galen, who was from ancient Rome. The vein of Galen is named after him. Galen is sometimes called "Galenus".
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Shown here is James Watson, who was born in Chicago, Illinois. Both Watson & Crick are still alive.
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Shown here is Florence Nightengale. She was born in 1820 and died in London in 1910. She was a famous nurse.
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Shown here is Louis Pasteur of 19th century France. Although Pasteur did not study the brain, I have included him here because he overcame feirce opposition to his views (as did Darwin). A similar situation existed with Pauling, but many of Pauling's views are still rejected.
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Shown here is Rudolf Virchow, who was born in 1821 and died in Berlin in 1902. Virchow favored studying the pathology of cells with a microscope. He became famous for this.
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Shown here is Alfred Adler, an European psychologist. Adler died in Scotland.
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