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Oswald Hope Robertson
Oswald Hope Robertson (1886–1966) was an American physician and experimental-medicine researcher who created the first blood bank on the Western Front in 1917–1918, storing citrated blood on ice.
Oswald J. Schmitz
Oswald J. Schmitz is an ecosystem and community ecologist, the Oastler Professor at the Yale School of the Environment, known for showing that animals regulate the carbon cycle.
Oswald Schmiedeberg
Oswald Schmiedeberg (Johann Ernst Oswald Schmiedeberg, 1838–1921) was a Baltic German pharmacologist who established experimental pharmacology, co-founded its first journal in 1873, and trained about 120 pupils from 20 countries.
Oswald Steward
Oswald Steward is a UC Irvine neuroscientist and founding director of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center, known for discovering local protein synthesis in neurons and winning the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience.
Otávio Berwanger
Otávio Berwanger (Otavio Berwanger) is a Brazilian cardiologist and clinical trialist who became Executive Director of The George Institute UK in November 2022, holding a Chair in Clinical Trials at Imperial College London.
Otfrid Foerster
Otfrid Foerster (1873–1941) was a German neurologist and self-taught neurosurgeon in Breslau who devised posterior rhizotomy for spasticity, mapped the human dermatomes, and pioneered awake cortical stimulation surgery for epilepsy.
Othon Iliopoulos
Othon Iliopoulos is a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, known for work on the VHL tumor suppressor pathway and belzutifan trials.
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer (1896–1969), German human geneticist and Nazi racial-hygiene leader, directed the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, received Auschwitz blood samples via Josef Mengele, and in 1951 became Münster's first professor of human genetics.
Otokata Higashi
Otokata Higashi was a Japanese pediatrician, a Tohoku University graduate and professor of pediatrics at Akita University, remembered as co-eponym of Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, a rare immunodeficiency and pigmentary disorder he described in 1954.
Ottavio Arancio
Ottavio Arancio is an Italian-born American physician-scientist and cellular neurobiologist, professor at Columbia University's Taub Institute, known for pioneering study of synaptic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
Otto Binswanger
Otto Binswanger (1852–1929) was a Swiss psychiatrist who directed the Jena psychiatric clinic from 1882 to 1919, treated Friedrich Nietzsche, and described Binswanger's disease in 1894.
Otto Frank (physiologist)
Otto Frank (1865–1944) was a German physiologist whose name is attached to the Frank–Starling law of the heart; he was professor of physiology in Munich until 1934.
Otto Frankel
Sir Otto Frankel (1900–1998) was a Vienna-born plant geneticist who worked in New Zealand and Australia and became a founder of the international movement to conserve crop genetic diversity.
Otto Hagenbüchle
Otto Hagenbüchle is a molecular biologist whose 1980 to 1985 papers on mouse α-amylase genes established how a single gene produces different mRNAs in different tissues.
Ottó Herman
Ottó Herman (Herman Ottó; born Herrmann Károly Ottó; 1835–1914) was a self-taught Hungarian naturalist, ethnographer, archaeologist, and Independence Party member of Parliament often called the last great Hungarian polymath.
Otto Krayer
Otto Krayer (1899–1982) was a German-American pharmacologist who led Harvard Medical School's pharmacology department from 1939 to 1966, known for cardiovascular work on the veratrum alkaloids.
Otto L. Lange
Otto L. Lange (Otto Ludwig Lange) was a German botanist and lichenologist, regarded as a founder of modern ecophysiology, who held the Chair of Botany II at Würzburg from 1967.
Otto Loewi
Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist who proved in 1921, with two frog hearts, that nerves act by releasing chemicals, sharing the 1936 Nobel Prize with Henry Dale.
Otto M. Hess
Otto M. Hess (1946–2011) was a Swiss cardiologist who headed the cardiovascular department at the University Hospital of Bern and led trials of homocysteine-lowering therapy after angioplasty.
Otto Mehls
Otto Mehls is a German pediatric nephrologist who built the study of childhood chronic kidney disease at Heidelberg University Children's Hospital from 1968 to 2004.
Otto Meyerhof
Otto Fritz Meyerhof was a German-born physician and biochemist who shared the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering how oxygen consumption relates to lactic acid metabolism in muscle.
Otto Mühlbock
Otto Mühlbock (1906–1979) was a Dutch cancer researcher and endocrinologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute who showed hormones alone can induce mammary cancer in mice and developed the GR mouse strain.
Otto Naegeli
Otto Naegeli (1871–1938) was a Swiss physician and hematologist who identified the myeloblast and lymphoblast in a 1900 paper and wrote Blutkrankheiten und Blutdiagnostik, a German hematology textbook.
Otto Renner
Otto Renner (1883–1960) was a German botanist and plant geneticist who established plastid inheritance through studies of the evening primrose Oenothera, and was professor of botany at Jena and Munich.
Otto Rosenheim
Otto Rosenheim (Sigmund Otto Rosenheim, 1871–1955) was a German-born British biochemist who identified ergosterol as provitamin D and was elected a Royal Society Fellow in 1927.
Otto Schirmer
Otto Schirmer was a German ophthalmologist, born in 1864, who held chairs at Greifswald, Kiel, and Strassburg and introduced the Schirmer test for tear production in 1903.
Otto Thomas Solbrig
Otto Thomas Solbrig (1930–2023) was an Argentine evolutionary biologist and botanist at Harvard who led plant population biology research and won Japan's 1998 International Prize for Biology.
Otto vom Rath
Otto vom Rath was a zoologist active in the 1880s whose studies of insect sense organs gave its name to vom Rath's organ, a feature of butterflies and moths.
Otto von Schrön
Otto von Schrön (1837–1917) was a German pathologist who led the University of Naples' Institute of Anatomical Pathology for fifty-three years, training a generation of Italian medical scientists.
Otto Warburg (biochemist)
Otto Warburg (1883–1970) was a German biochemist who won the 1931 Nobel Prize for his work on the respiratory enzyme and described the Warburg effect in cancer.