Medical and health researchers

Luciano Di Croce

Luciano Di Croce is an Italian cancer epigenetics researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, known for work on Polycomb proteins in leukemia.

Luciano Gattinoni (published as L. Gattinoni; 1945-2024) was an Italian physician-scientist in anesthesia and intensive care medicine whose CT studies, baby lung concept, and prone positioning reshaped the treatment of ARDS.

Luciano Rossetti

Luciano Rossetti is a physician-scientist known for showing how the hypothalamus senses glucose and fatty acids to regulate glucose production and food intake, later Merck KGaA's R&D head.

Lucien Dautrebande

Lucien Dautrebande (1894–1968) was a Belgian physician and pharmacologist, professor at the Université de Liège, and co-author with Corneille Heymans of the 1930–1931 carotid sinus papers.

Lucien Engelen

Lucien Engelen (born 1962) is a Dutch healthcare innovation strategist who founded the REshape Center at Radboud University Medical Center, initiated the #patientsincluded charter, and wrote Augmented health(care).

Lucien Mallet

Lucien Mallet (1885–1981) was a French radiologist and radiotherapist who described and photographed the bluish glow of water under radium gamma rays between 1926 and 1929, before Cherenkov.

Lucio Bini

Lucio Bini (1908–1964) was an Italian physician and engineer who co-invented electroconvulsive therapy with Ugo Cerletti at the University of Rome, building the first ECT apparatus and patenting it.

Lucio Luzzatto

Lucio Luzzatto, born 1936, is an Italian hematologist and geneticist who showed paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria is a clonal disorder and cloned the human G6PD gene.

Łucja Frey

Łucja Frey (Łucja Frey-Gottesman; 1889–1942) was a Polish neurologist of Jewish origin whose 1923 description of gustatory sweating gave Frey's syndrome its name and first explanation.

Lucy C. Chappell

Lucy C. Chappell is a British obstetrician, Professor of Obstetrics at King's College London, and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care since 2021.

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Lucy McNamara

Lucy Alexandra McNamara is an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the CDC's Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, a PECASE recipient who deployed to the 2014 Ebola response in Guinea and Liberia.

Lucy S. Tompkins

Lucy S. Tompkins is an infectious diseases physician-scientist at Stanford, known for her 1990 paper identifying the agent of bacillary angiomatosis and for tracing Legionella outbreaks.

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Lucy Wills

Lucy Wills (1888–1964), English hematologist, discovered the "Wills factor" in yeast extract (Marmite) that cures macrocytic anemia of pregnancy, identified in Bombay cotton mill workers 1928–1933; the factor was later recognized as folic acid.

Ludo van Bogaert

Ludo van Bogaert (1897–1989) was a Belgian neurologist and neuropathologist in Antwerp who first described some 60 disease forms and founded the World Federation of Neurology.

Ludolf von Krehl

Ludolf von Krehl (1861–1937) was a German internist who led the Heidelberg Medical Clinic for 23 years, founded the Heidelberg school of psychosomatic medicine, and held that doctors treat patients, not diseases.

Ludolph Brauer

Ludolph Brauer (1865–1951) was a German internist who founded collapse therapy for tuberculosis, developed positive-pressure ventilation for open-chest surgery, and directed the Eppendorf hospital in Hamburg from 1910 to 1934.

Ludvig Hektoen

Ludvig Hektoen (1863–1951) was an American pathologist and immunologist who pioneered immunology in the United States, heading pathology at the University of Chicago from 1901 to 1932.

Ludvig M. Sollid

Ludvig M. Sollid is a Norwegian immunologist and professor at the University of Oslo whose research established the genetic and immunological basis of celiac disease.

Ludwig Aschoff

Karl Albert Ludwig Aschoff (1866–1942) was a German pathologist, regarded as the most important after Virchow, known for the Aschoff body, the Aschoff-Tawara node, and Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses.

Ludwig Bruns

Ludwig Bruns (1858–1916) was a German neurologist in Hannover whose name survives in Bruns syndrome, Bruns nystagmus, and frontal ataxia, and who helped operate early spinal cord tumors.

Ludwig Georg Courvoisier

Ludwig Georg Courvoisier (1843–1918) was a Swiss surgeon, chief physician at the Diakonissenspital Riehen for 47 years and professor of surgery at Basel, remembered for Courvoisier's law on gallbladder dilatation.

Ludwig Haberlandt

Ludwig Haberlandt (1885–1932) was an Austrian physiologist in Innsbruck who first demonstrated in animals that hormones of pregnancy could temporarily suppress fertility, proposing hormonal contraception about four decades before the Pill.

Ludwig Heilmeyer

Ludwig Heilmeyer (1899–1969) was a German internist and hematologist who directed the University of Freiburg Medical Clinic from 1946 to 1967 and became founding rector of the University of Ulm.

Ludwig Kappos

Ludwig Kappos is a Swiss neurologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel who led pivotal trials of most approved multiple sclerosis therapies and helped set diagnostic criteria.

Ludwig Pick

Ludwig Pick (1868–1944) was a German Jewish pathologist at Berlin's Friedrichshain hospital who delineated Niemann-Pick disease and was deported to Theresienstadt, dying there in 1944.

Ludwik Hirszfeld

Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884–1954) was a Polish physician and immunologist who demonstrated with Emil von Dungern that blood groups are inherited, established the ABO nomenclature, and survived the Warsaw Ghetto.

Luella Klein

Luella Klein, also Luella Klein-Colquitt, was an American obstetrician-gynecologist who became the first woman president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1984.

Luigi Bartalena

Luigi Bartalena is an Italian physician-scientist in endocrinology, Emeritus Professor at the University of Insubria in Varese, known for randomized trials of Graves' hyperthyroidism treatment and its eye complications.

Luigi Ferrucci

Luigi Ferrucci is an Italian geriatrician and epidemiologist, Scientific Director of the National Institute on Aging's intramural research program since 2011, studying physical and cognitive decline in older people.