Medicine
- Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan born American, Nobel Prize of Medicine in (1980).
- José Gregorio Hernández, and religious figure (Catholic religion).
- Marcel Roche, physician and educator.
- José María Vargas, modernized the Medicine studies in Venezuela, in the Second half of the nineteenth century.
- Tobías Lasser, botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas
- Humberto Fernández Morán, research scientist, founder of the Venezuelan Institute for Neurological and Brain Studies and developed the diamond scalpel.
- Jacinto Convit, medic and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to fight leprosy and his studies to cure different types of cancer. In 1987, he received a Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category. Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine by his anti-leprosy vaccine in 1988.
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Famous quotes containing the word medicine:
“As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)