List of pathologists

A list of people notable in the field ofpathology.

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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 and pathologist.
• A. Bernard Ackerman(1936–2008), American dermatopathologist & dermatologist
• Lauren Ackerman(1905–1993), American pathologist and one of the fathers ofSurgical pathology.
• Theodor Ackermann(1825–1896), German pathologist.
• Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz(1850–1921), Polish pathologist, (seeArtery of Adamkiewicz).
• W. Stewart Alexander,contemporary British pathologist (seeAlexander 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 theAschoff bodyand theAtrioventricular nodein the heart.
• Max Askanazy(1865–1940), German pathologist (seeAskanazy cell).
• E. Ask-Upmark,20th-century Swedish pathologist (seeAsk-Upmark kidney).

B

• Matthew Baillie(1761–1823), British physician and pathologist, credited with first identifyingtransposition of the great vesselsandsitus 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 (seeBeckwith–Wiedemann syndrome).
• Antonio di Paolo Benivieni(1443–1502), 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 (seeBest'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 (seeBiernacki 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,academicand 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 (seeBrenner tumor).
• Alexander Breslow(1928–1980), American pathologist (seeBreslow's depth).
• Richard Bright(1789–1858), British internist and pathologist (seeBright's disease).
• Ludwig von Buhl(1816–1880), German pathologist.

C

• Santiago Ramón y Cajal(1852–1934), Spanish pathologist andNobel laureatein 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 (seeCanavan 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 (seeArnold–Chiari malformation,Budd–Chiari syndrome).
• Jacob Churg(1910–2005), Russian-born American pathologist (seeChurg–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 (seeCorrigan's pulse).
• Ramzi Cotran,American pathologist
• William Thomas Councilman(1854–1933), American pathologist (seeCouncilman body).
• Jean Cruveilhier(1791–1874), French anatomist and pathologist (seeCruveilhier's sign,Cruveilhier–Baumgarten disease).

D

• David C. Dahlin(1917–2003) American surgical & orthopedic pathologist.
• Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance(1797–1832) French pathologist.
• Ferdinand-Jean Darier(1856–1938), French pathologist and dermatologist.
• James R. Dawson(1908–1986), American pathologist (seeDawson 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 (seeDöhle bodies).
• William L. Donohue(1906–1985), Canadian pathologist (seeDonohue syndrome).
• Georges Dreyer(1873–1934), Danish pathologist, professor of pathology atOxford University.
• I. N. Dubin(born 1913), American pathologist (seeDubin–Johnson syndrome).
• Cuthbert Dukes(1890–1977), English physician and pathologist for whom theDukes classificationfor colorectal cancer is named.
• Guillaume Dupuytren(1777–1835), French military surgeon & surgical pathologist.

E

• Karl Joseph Eberth(1835–1926), German pathologist and bacteriologist.
• William E. Ehrich(1900–1967), German-American pathologist, professor of pathology at Philadelphia General Hospital and the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania.
• 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 (seeErdheim–Chester disease).
• James Ewing(1866–1943), American surgical pathologist, first professor of pathology atCornell University,eponymist ofEwing's sarcoma,one of the founders ofAACR.

F

• Robert (Robin) Sanno Fåhræus(1888–1968), Swedish pathologist (seeFåhræus effectandFåhræus–Lindqvist effect).
• Sidney Farber(1903–1973), American pediatric pathologist, regarded as the father of modernchemotherapy,and after whom theDana–Farber Cancer Instituteis named.
• Martin J. Fettman(born 1956), American veterinarian, veterinary pathologist, and astronaut
• Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger(1867–1928), Danish physician & pathologist,Nobel laureatein Physiology or Medicine 1926.
• Paul Flechsig(1847–1929), German neuroanatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist.
• Christopher D. M. Fletcher,Anglo-American pathologist
• 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 ofhistological stainingandmicrography
• Gustav Giemsa(1867–1948), German physician, pathologist, & histochemist (seeGiemsa stain)
• Anthony Gill(born 1972), Australian pathologist and medical researcher
• Camillo Golgi(1843–1926), Italian neuropathologist &Nobel laureatein Physiology or Medicine, 1906
• Ernest Goodpasture(1886–1960), American pathologist, eponymist ofGoodpasture'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 ofHodgkin's disease.
• Friedrich Albin Hoffmann(1843–1924), German internist and pathologist.
• Jason Hornick,American pathologist and researcher
• Karl Hürthle(1860–1945), German physiologist and histologist.
• Helen Hart(1900–1971), American plant pathologist

J

• Elaine Jaffe,American pathologist, expert in research, diagnostics and classification of lymphomas, particularlyfollicular lymphoma.

K

• Fujiro Katsurada(1867–1946), Japanese pathologist.
• Eduard Kaufmann(1860–1931), German 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 Kossa19th-century Austro-Hungarian pathologist (seeVon Kossa stain).
• Leiv Kreyberg(1896–1984), Norwegian war hero, humanitarian and pathologist known for typology of lung cancer.
• Hans Kundrat(1845–1893), Austrian pathologist.
• Kathleen Coard(born 1952), Grenadian pathologist.

L

• Paul Eston Lacy(1924–2005), former chairperson of pathology at Washington University and diabetes researcher.
• Paul Langerhans(1847–1888), German pathologist, physiologist and biologist.
• William Boog Leishman(1865–1926), English authority on the pathology of human parasitic diseases (seeleishmaniasis)
• George Lignac(1891–1954), Dutch pathologist-anatomist.
• Henrique da Rocha Lima(1879–1956), Brazilian physician, pathologist and infectologist
• James Linder(born 1954), American cytopathologist and technological developer
• Leo Loeb(1869–1959), American pathologist and early cancer researcher.
• Esmond Ray Long(1890–1970), American pathologist, epidemiologist, and medical historian.

M

• Frank Burr Mallory(1862–1941), American surgical pathologist & histochemist (seeMallory bodies)
• Rod Markin(born 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].
• Frances Gertrude McGill(1882–1959), pioneering Canadian pathologist and criminologist
• Tracey McNamara,veterinary pathologist at theBronx Zoowho played a pivotal role in identifying the first outbreak ofWest Nile Virusin the United States
• Giovanni Battista Morgagni(1682–1771), Italian pathologist, considered the father of modernAnatomical Pathology

N

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

O

• Shuji Ogino(born 1968), Japanese pathologist,epidemiologist,Harvard Universityprofessor, and pioneer inmolecular pathological epidemiology.
• Eugene Lindsay Opie(1873–1971), American pathologist and researcher on tuberculosis.
• Johannes Orth(1847–1923), German pathologist.
• William Osler(1849–1919), Canadian physician and pathologist, founder professor atJohns 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 (seePap smear)
• Artur Pappenheim(1870–1916), German physician, developer of histochemical stains.
• Lukáš Plank(born 1951), Slovak pathologist specializing in oncopathology and hematopathology.
• Emil Ponfick(1844–1913), German pathologist.

R

• Louis-Antoine Ranvier(1835–1922), French physician, pathologist, anatomist and histologist, discoverer ofnodes of Ranvier.
• Ronald Rapini (born 1948), US dermatopathologist; discoverer of sclerotic fibroma.
• Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen(1833–1910), German pathologist.
• Benno Reinhardt(1819–1852), German physician, specialized in pathological anatomy.
• Donald Rix(1931–2009), founder of a Canadian commercial pathology laboratory.
• Carl von Rokitansky(1804–1878), Bohemian autopsy pathologist.
• Juan Rosai(1940–2020), Italian-American surgical pathologist, discoverer ofRosai-Dorfman diseaseand thedesmoplastic small round cell tumor.
• Gustave Roussy(1874–1948), Swiss-French neuropathologist.

S

• Christian Georg Schmorl(1861–1932), German pathologist.
• Richard Scolyer,Australian pathologist
• Johann Lukas Schönlein(1793–1864), German naturalist, and pathologist.
• Charles Scott Sherrington(1857–1952), English neuropathologist &Nobel laureatein Physiology or Medicine 1932
• Richard Shope(1901–1966), American virologist and pathologist.
• Keith Simpson(1907–1985), English forensic pathologist.
• Maud Slye(1879–1954), American experimental pathologist.
• Theobald Smith(1859–1934), American pioneering epidemiologist and pathologist.
• Kim Solez(born 1946), American pathologist, father of the Banff Classification of Transplantation Pathology.
• Sir Bernard Spilsbury(1877–1947), British pathologist.
• Sophie Spitz(1910–1956), American surgical pathologist, eponymist ofSpitz nevus
• Edward Stafne(born 1894, date of death unknown), American oral pathologist (seeStafne defect).
• Allen Starry(1890–1973), American pathologist (seeWarthin–Starry stain).
• Javier Arias Stella(1924–2020), Peruvian pathologist, describer of the Arias Stella reaction in the endometrium.
• Stephen Sternberg(1920–2021), American pathologist, founding Editor-in-Chief of TheAmerican Journal of Surgical Pathologyand editor of several 20th-century pathology textbooks.
• Arthur Purdy Stout(1885–1967). American surgeon and pathologist, & one of the fathers of modernSurgical pathology.
• Lotte Strauss(1913–1985), American pathologist (seeChurg–Strauss syndrome).

T

• Sunao Tawara(1873–1952), Japanese pathologist, discoverer of theAtrioventricular node.
• Donald Teare(1911–1979), British pathologist.
• 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 ofdermatopathology.
• James Underwood(born 1942), British pathologist.

V

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

W

• Erik Waaler(1903–1997), Norwegian professor of medicine.
• Hermann Julius Gustav Wächter(born 1878, date of death unknown), German physician (seeBracht-Wachter bodies).
• Ernst Leberecht Wagner(1829–1888), German pathologist.
• Heinrich von Waldeyer-Hartz(1836–1921), German anatomist.
• Robin Warren(born 1937), Australian gastrointestinal pathologist &Nobel laureatein Physiology or Medicine, 2005.
• Aldred Scott Warthin(1866–1931), American pathologist (seeWarthin–Starry stain).
• David Weatherall(1933–2013), British physician and researcher
• Friedrich Wegener(1907–1990), German pathologist (seegranulomatosis with polyangiitis).
• Anton Weichselbaum(1845–1920), Austrian pathologist and bacteriologist.
• Carl Weigert(1845–1904), developer of histochemical stains.
• Adolf Weil(1848–1916), German physician and pathologist (seeWeil's disease).
• Ronald S. Weinstein(1938–2021), American pathologist, inventor, educator (seeTelepathology).
• Sharon Weiss(born 1945), American surgical pathologist, expert on soft tissue pathology (seeSarcoma).
• William Henry Welch(1850–1934), American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, medical school administrator, founder professor atJohns Hopkins Hospital.
• Max Westenhöfer,(1871–1957), German pathologist, disciple ofRudolf Virchow,author of theaquatic ape hypothesisand influential on the development of pathology and social medicine inChile.
• George Whipple(1878–1976), American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator,Nobel laureatein Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
• James Homer Wright(1869–1928), surgical pathologist and developer of histochemical stains (seeWright stain).
• Guy Alfred Wyon(1883–1924), English pathologist, one of the team which resolved the issue of potentially-fatalTNTpoisoning inshellfactories duringWorld War I

Y

• Yamagiwa Katsusaburō(1863–1930) Japanese pathologist, developed the concept of chemical carcinogenesis.

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