Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat
(1788/1832)
Sinologist, reviver of this science in France. Doctor of Medicine, member of the council for the improvement of the deaf and mute (1824). He died of cholera in 1832.
Ernst Alban
(1791/1856)
German surgeon and ophthalmologist, pioneer in the construction of steam engines.
Jean-Louis Alibert (baron)
(1768/1837)
A French physician and creator of modern dermatology, he brought worldwide renown to the Saint-Louis hospital.
Joseph Aquinas (of)
(1732/1815)
A doctor, spa specialist and naturalist from Savoy, he was particularly interested in the thermal waters of Aix.
Casimir-François-Henri Barjavel
(1803/1868)
French physician, politician, historian and bibliophile.
Samuel Battier
(1667/1744)
Swiss Hellenist and physician, friend of Malebranche, professor of Greek and rector of the University of Basel.
Charles Baudouin
(1893/1963)
A psychoanalyst of the Freudian school, a disciple of Jung, and the founder of what would become the International Institute of Psychoanalysis and Psychology in Geneva. He met Freud several times.
Pierre Bayen
(1725/1798)
Pharmacist and chemist, creator and organizer of the military pharmacy.
Pierre Auguste Béclard
(1785/1825)
Surgeon and anatomist, one of the most eminent of his time.
Baruj Benacerraf
(born in 1920)
Venezuelan doctor, Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1979.