List of pathologists

A list of people notable in the field of pathology.

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A

• 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 & 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).
• Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861), German ophthalmologist and 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).

B

• Heinrich von Bamberger (1822-1888), Austrian pathologist from Prague.
• Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848-1928), German pathologist.
• John Bruce Beckwith (1933- ), American pathologist (see Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome).
• Franz Best (1878–1920), German pathologist (see Best's disease).
• Marie François 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.
• 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-), 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.

C

• 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, one of the first female pathologists (see Canavan disease).
• Karl Friedrich Canstatt (1807-1850), German physician, pathologist and medical author.
• Marie Cassidy (1959-), Irish forensic pathologist.
• Benjamin Castleman (1906-1982), American surgical pathologist and eponymist of Castleman's disease.
• 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.
• Astley Cooper (1768-1841), English surgeon, anatomist & pathologist.
• Dominic Corrigan (1802–1880), Irish physician & pathologist (see Corrigan's pulse).
• 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).

D

• David C. Dahlin (1917–2003) American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
• James R. Dawson (1908-), American pathologist (see Dawson encephalitis).
• Francis Delafield (1841-1915), American physician & pathologist.
• Franz Dittrich (1815-1859), Austrian-Bohemian-German pathologist.
• Karl Gottfried Paul Döhle (1855-1928), German pathologist & histologist (see Döhle bodies).
• William L. Donohue (1906-), Canadian pathologist (see Donohue syndrome).
• Georges Dreyer (1873-1934), Danish pathologist, professor of pathology at Oxford University.
• I. N. Dubin (1913-), American pathologist (see Dubin–Johnson syndrome).
• Cuthbert Dukes (1890–1977), English physician and pathologist for whom the Dukes classification for colorectal cancer is named.
• Guillaume Dupuytren (1777–1835), French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.

E

• Karl Joseph Eberth (1835-1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist.
• Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German physician, researcher and pathologist, Nobel laureate, one of the founders of immunology & laboratory medicine.
• Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), Austrian pathologist (see Erdheim–Chester disease).
• James Ewing (1866-1943), American surgical pathologist, first professor of Pathology at Cornell University, eponymist of Ewing's sarcoma, one of the founders of AACR.

F

• Robert (Robin) Sanno Fåhræus (1888–1968), Swedish pathologist (see Fåhræus effect and Fåhræus–Lindqvist effect).
• Sidney Farber (1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modern chemotherapy, and after whom the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is named.
• Martin J. Fettman (1956-), American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
• Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1867–1928), Danish physician & pathologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1926.
• Paul Flechsig (1847-1929), German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
• Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs (1819-1885), German pathologist.
• Nikolaus Friedreich (1825-1882), German pathologist and neurologist.
• August von Froriep (1849-1917), German anatomist.
• Robert Froriep (1804-1861), German anatomist and medical publisher.

G

• Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt (1833-1902), German pathologist.
• Joseph von Gerlach (1820-1896), German professor of anatomy, pioneer of histological staining and micrography.
• Gustav Giemsa (1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (see Giemsa stain)
• Camillo Golgi (1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 1906
• Ernest Goodpasture (1886-1960), American pathologist, eponymist of Goodpasture's syndrome.
• Austin Gresham (1925–2009), English forensic pathologist.

H

• Hakaru Hashimoto (1881-1934), Japanese medical scientist.
• Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951), American researcher on pathology of infectious diseases.
• Arnold Ludwig Gotthilf Heller (1840-1913), German anatomist and pathologist.
• Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809-1885), German physician, pathologist and anatomist.
• Richard L. Heschl (1824-1881), Austrian anatomist & pathologist.
• Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), English physician & pathologist; eponymist of Hodgkin's disease.
• Friedrich Albin Hoffmann (1843-1924), German internist and pathologist.
• Karl Hürthle (1860-1945), German physiologist and histologist.

K

• Eduard Kaufmann (1860-1931), German pathologist.
• Ahmet Cemil Kaur (1962-), Turkish pathologist.
• Ernest Kennaway (1881–1958), English clinical chemist and researcher on carcinogenesis.
• Jack Kevorkian (1928-2011), American pathologist, controversial advocate of euthanasia.
• Theodor Albrecht Edwin Klebs (1834-1913), German-Swiss pathologist.
• Julius von Kossa 19th century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (see Von Kossa stain).
• Leiv Kreyberg (1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
• Hans Kundrat (1845-1893), Austrian pathologist.

L

• Paul Langerhans (1847-1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
• William Boog Leishman (1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (see leishmaniasis)
• George Lignac (1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
• James Linder (1954-), American cytopathologist and technological developer

M

• Frank Burr Mallory (1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (see Mallory bodies)
• Rod Markin (1956-) American pioneer in laboratory automation.
• Alexander A. Maximow (1874-1928), Russian-American scientist, histologist and embryologist.
• John McCrae (1872-1918), Canadian pathologist, physician, soldier and poet, author of [In Flanders Fields].
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modern Anatomical Pathology

N

• Heijiro Nakayama (1871-1956), Japanese pathologist.
• Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925), German pathologist.
• Franz Ernst Christian Neumann (1834-1918), German pathologist.
• Thomas Noguchi (1927-), Japanese American forensic pathologist & medical examiner.

O

• Shuji Ogino (1968-), Japanese pathologist, epidemiologist, Harvard University professor, and pioneer in molecular pathological epidemiology.
• Johannes Orth (1847-1923), German pathologist.
• William Osler (1849-1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

P

• Richard Paltauf (1858-1924), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
• George Nicolas Papanicolaou (1883–1962), Greek-American cytopathologist & developer of the Papanicolaou cervical smear (see Pap smear)
• Artur Pappenheim (1870-1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
• Emil Ponfick (1844-1913), German pathologist.

R

• Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), German pathologist.
• Benno Reinhardt (1819-1852), German physician, specialized in the field of pathological anatomy.
• Donald Rix (1931-2009), founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory
• Carl von Rokitansky (1804-1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist
• Juan Rosai (1940-), Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer of Rosai-Dorfman disease and the desmoplastic small round cell tumor.
• Gustave Roussy (1874-1948), Swiss-French neuropathologist.

S

• Christian Georg Schmorl (1861-1932), German pathologist.
• Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864), German naturalist, and pathologist.
• Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952), English neuropathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1932
• Richard Shope (1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist.
• Lee J. Slavutin (1951 -), Australian pathologist.
• Maud Slye (1879–1954), American experimental pathologist.
• Theobald Smith (1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
• Kim Solez (1946-), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
• Sophie Spitz (1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist of Spitz nevus
• Edward Stafne (1894-?), American oral pathologist (see Stafne defect).
• Allen Starry (1890-1973), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
• Javier Arias Stella (1924-), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
• Stephen Sternberg (1920-), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Surgical Pathology and editor of several 20th century pathology textbooks.
• Arthur Purdy Stout (1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modern Surgical pathology.
• Lotte Strauss (1913-1985), American pathologist (see Churg–Strauss syndrome).

T

• Sunao Tawara (1873-1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of the Atrioventricular node.
• Jacques-René Tenon (1724-1816), French surgeon and pathologist.
• Ludwig Traube (1818-1876), German physician, co-founder of the experimental pathology in Germany.
• Václav Treitz (1819-1872), Czech pathologist.
• Charles Emile Troisier (1844-1919), French doctor.

U

• Johann Paul Uhle (1827-1861), German physician and pathologist.
• Paul Gerson Unna (1850-1929), one of the founders of dermatopathology.

V

• José Verocay (1876–1927), Czechoslovakian pathologist (see Verocay body).
• Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), German physician, politician, & the father of "cellular" pathology.
• Adolf Vossius (1855–1925), German pathologist (see Vossius ring).

W

• Erik Waaler (1903–1997), Norwegian professor of medicine.
• Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter (1878-?), German physician (see Bracht-Wachter bodies.
• Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829-1888), German pathologist.
• Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz (1836-1921), German anatomist.
• Robin Warren (1937-), Australian gastrointestinal pathologist & Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
• Aldred Scott Warthin (1866-1931), American pathologist (see Warthin–Starry stain).
• Friedrich Wegener (1907-1990), German pathologist (see Wegener's granulomatosis).
• Anton Weichselbaum (1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
• Carl Weigert (1845-1904), developer of histochemical stains.
• Adolf Weil (1848-1916), German physician and pathologist (see Weil's disease).
• Sharon Weiss (1945-), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (see Sarcoma).
• William Henry Welch (1850–1934), American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
• Max Westenhöfer, (1871-1957), German pathologist, disciple of Rudolf Virchow, author of the aquatic ape hypothesis and influential on the development of pathology and social medicine in Chile.
• George Whipple (1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.
• James Homer Wright (1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (see Wright stain).

Z

• Friedrich Wilhelm Zahn (1845–1904), German pathologist.
• Friedrich Albert von Zenker (1825-1898), German pathologist and physician.
• Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen (1829–1902), German pathologist and physician.

See also

• Lists of people by occupation