Tributes

Few names in medical history carry the quiet yet transformative weight of Georgios Papanikolaou, the Greek physician whose development of the Pap smear has become a global standard in cancer…

Few pharmaceutical breakthroughs have transformed human society as deeply as the oral contraceptive pill. Since its development over seven decades ago, it has not only given women control over their…

The story of Richard Doll epidemiology is not just about one man’s scientific discoveries. It is the story of how determination, ethical science, and public courage exposed one of the…

In modern healthcare, few names resonate as profoundly as Florence Nightingale. Her steadfast compassion on the battlefield and her groundbreaking approach to hygiene and data analysis continue to influence nursing…

In the quiet corridors of Princeton University, a thin, disheveled man once wandered, scribbling equations on blackboards, barely speaking, and often lost in his own world. That man was John…