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:
“After you eat always take a walk, and you’ll never have to go to a medicine shop.”
—Chinese proverb.
Rhyme.
“For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,—for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“We gave ‘em wings to fly and they rained death on us. We gave ‘em a voice to be heard around the world and they preach hatred to poison the minds of nations. Even the medicine we gave them to ease their pain is turned into a vice to enslave half mankind for the profit of a few. Ah, Janet, dear, don’t you see? Every gift that science has given them has been twisted into a thing of hate and greed.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)