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The Most Famous

PHYSICIANS from Lithuania

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This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Physicians. The pantheon dataset contains 502 Physicians, 3 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 29th most number of Physicians behind Romania and South Korea.

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Physicians of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Physicians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Andrew Schally (1926 - )

With an HPI of 59.89, Andrew Schally is the most famous Lithuanian Physician.  His biography has been translated into 48 different languages on wikipedia.

Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally (born 30 November 1926) is an American endocrinologist of Polish ancestry, who was a corecipient, with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This award recognized his research in the discovery that the hypothalamus controls hormone production and release by the pituitary gland, which controls the regulation of other hormones in the body. Later in life, Schally utilized his knowledge of hypothalamic hormones to research possible methods for birth control and cancer treatment.

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2. Oskar Minkowski (1858 - 1931)

With an HPI of 50.84, Oskar Minkowski is the 2nd most famous Lithuanian Physician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Oskar Minkowski (; German: [mɪŋˈkɔfski] 13 January 1858 – 18 July 1931) was a German physician and physiologist who held a professorship at the University of Breslau and is most famous for his research on diabetes. He was the brother of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski and father of astrophysicist Rudolph Minkowski.

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3. Napoleon Cybulski (1854 - 1919)

With an HPI of 47.22, Napoleon Cybulski is the 3rd most famous Lithuanian Physician.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (Polish pronunciation: [napɔˈlɛɔn t͡sɨˈbulski]; 14 September 1854 – 26 April 1919) was a Polish physiologist and a pioneer of endocrinology and electroencephalography. In 1895, he isolated and identified adrenaline.

Pantheon has 3 people classified as physicians born between 1854 and 1926. Of these 3, 1 (33.33%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living physicians include Andrew Schally. The most famous deceased physicians include Oskar Minkowski and Napoleon Cybulski. As of April 2022, 2 new physicians have been added to Pantheon including Oskar Minkowski and Napoleon Cybulski.

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