PHYSICIANS from Venezuela

Top 2

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

1. Baruj Benacerraf (1920 - 2011)

With an HPI of 61.28, Baruj Benacerraf is the most famous Venezuelan Physician.  His biography has been translated into 58 different languages on wikipedia.

Baruj Benacerraf (; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self." His colleagues and shared recipients were Jean Dausset and George Davis Snell.

2. Jacinto Convit (1913 - 2014)

With an HPI of 47.01, Jacinto Convit is the 2nd most famous Venezuelan Physician.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Jacinto Convit García (11 September 1913 – 12 May 2014) was a Venezuelan physician and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to prevent leprosy and his studies to treat cancer. He played a role in founding Venezuela's National Institute of Biomedicine and held many leprosy-related positions. Among Convit's many honors for his work on leprosy and tropical diseases was Spain's Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category and France's Legion of Honor. In 1988, Convit was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his experimental anti-leprosy vaccine.