Authors
Physicians, natural philosophers, surgeons, nurses and molecular biologists whose work turns the atlas.
Hippocrates of Cos
Father of medicine; severed disease from the divine.
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Galen of Pergamon
Anatomist to the gladiators; ruled medicine for an age.
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Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna)
Codified all medicine in his five-book Canon.
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Andreas Vesalius
Corrected the ancients from the corpse itself.
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William Harvey
Set the blood upon its measured circle.
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Edward Jenner
Borrowed a shield against smallpox from the cowpox.
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René Laennec
Rolled the first stethoscope from a quire of paper.
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William T. G. Morton
Silenced the surgeon's knife with ether vapour.
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Robert Liston
Made the age of speed obsolete with ether.
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John Snow
Traced cholera to a single Soho pump.
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Florence Nightingale
Turned the ward into plain, saving arithmetic.
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Louis Pasteur
Banished the notion of life born from nothing.
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Joseph Lister
Waged open war on the putrefaction of wounds.
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Robert Koch
Gave the consumption a face beneath the lens.
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Wilhelm C. Röntgen
Photographed the living bone through the flesh.
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Frederick Banting
Called the dying diabetic back with insulin.
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Alexander Fleming
Found a cure in a single forgotten dish.
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Howard Florey
Turned penicillin into a medicine.
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Rosalind Franklin
Her Photograph 51 held heredity's cipher.
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James Watson
Co-proposed the double helix, aged twenty-four.
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Francis Crick
Framed the code the double helix implied.
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Christiaan Barnard
Dared the first transplant of a human heart.
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