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Luciano Gattinoni
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 Marraffini
Luciano Marraffini is an Argentine-born microbiologist, the Kayden Family Professor at Rockefeller University and an HHMI Investigator, known for showing that CRISPR-Cas systems target DNA rather than RNA.
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.
Lucille Shapiro
Lucille (Lucy) Shapiro is an American molecular biologist at Stanford who established Caulobacter crescentus as a model for cell differentiation and won the 2011 National Medal of Science.
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.
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.
Lucy Shapiro
Lucy Shapiro is an American developmental biologist at Stanford University School of Medicine who studies the bacterial cell cycle in Caulobacter crescentus and received the 2025 Lasker~Koshland Award.
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.
Ludger Johannes
Ludger Johannes is a German-born cell biologist, Research Director at Inserm and team head at Institut Curie in Paris since 2001, known for retrograde transport and the GL-Lect hypothesis.
Ludimar Hermann
Ludimar Hermann (1838–1914) was a German physiologist and speech scientist, professor at Zurich and Königsberg, who discovered the Hermann grid illusion and coined the term vocal formants.
Ludmila Rattis
Ludmila Rattis (Ludmila Maria Rattis Teixeira) is a Brazilian ecologist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center and IPAM who studies ecological thresholds of the Amazon and Cerrado.
Ludmila Y. Frolova
Ludmila Y. Frolova is a Russian molecular biologist at the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow who identified the conserved GGQ motif of translation release factors.
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.
Ludovic Orlando
Ludovic Orlando (born 1977) is a French paleogenomicist and CNRS research director who sequenced some of the oldest genomes and resolved where horses and donkeys were domesticated.
Ludovic Vallier
Ludovic Vallier, born 1973, is a French stem cell biologist who models liver disease using human pluripotent stem cells and organoids at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité.
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.