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Charles Oberling
Charles Oberling (1895–1960) was a French physician and pathologist, a leading advocate of the viral theory of cancer and director of the cancer research institute at Villejuif.
Charles Osborne (farmer)
Charles Osborne (1893 or 1894–May 1991), American Iowa farmer, holds the Guinness record for the longest hiccup attack: 68 years, 1922 to February 1990, 20–40 hiccups per minute, about 430 million hiccups, after a 1922 hog-lifting accident.
Charles Otis Whitman
Charles Otis Whitman (1842–1910) was an American zoologist, morphologist, and embryologist who founded the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, serving as its first director from 1888 to 1908.
Charles P. Emerson
Charles P. Emerson is an American developmental biologist known for work on myogenic regulatory factors and, since 2013, director of the Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Program at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester.
Charles P. O’Brien
Charles P. O'Brien is an American addiction psychiatrist and emeritus professor at the University of Pennsylvania who founded its Center for Studies of Addiction and chaired the DSM-5 substance use disorders committee.
Charles P. Ordahl
Charles P. Ordahl is a developmental biologist, emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, known for his 1978 irreversible gene repression model and chick-quail somite lineage experiments.
Charles P. Venditti
Charles P. Venditti is an American physician-scientist who leads the Metabolic Medicine Branch at the NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, studying methylmalonic acidemia and propionic acidemia.
Charles Pfizer
Charles Pfizer (Karl Christian Friedrich Pfizer, 1824–1906), German-American chemist who co-founded Charles Pfizer & Company in Brooklyn in 1849 with cousin Charles Erhart, starting with a toffee-flavored santonin deworming candy and building a leading US fine-chemical maker.
Charles R. Bridges Jr.
Charles R. Bridges Jr. is an American cardiothoracic surgeon-scientist and engineer who leads CorVista Health and was the first African American Full Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Charles R. Cantor
Charles R. Cantor, born 1942, is an American molecular geneticist who helped found Sequenom, developed its noninvasive prenatal genetic tests, and directed a Human Genome Center at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Charles R. Drew
Charles Richard Drew (1904-1950), American surgeon, developed blood plasma storage, led WWII Blood for Britain and first Red Cross blood bank, resigned over segregated blood, Spingarn Medal 1944.
Charles R. Goldman
Charles R. Goldman is an American limnologist and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, known for monitoring Lake Tahoe's clarity since 1958 and founding the Castle Lake research program in 1959.
Charles R. Kleeman
Charles Richard Kleeman (1923–2021) was an American nephrologist at UCLA, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1982, who wrote a standard textbook on fluid and electrolyte disorders.
Charles R. M. Bangham
Charles R. M. Bangham is a British immunologist and virologist, Emeritus Professor of Immunology at Imperial College London, known for research on HTLV-1 and for discovering the virological synapse.
Charles R. Mackay
Charles R. Mackay is an Australian immunologist, elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2009, known for lymphocyte migration and the 2009 Nature finding that short-chain fatty acids from gut bacteria regulate inflammation.
Charles R. Newton
Charles R. Newton, also published as Charles Newton, is a Kenyan-born pediatric neurologist and Oxford professor known for research on epilepsy and cerebral malaria in African children.
Charles R. Park
Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park, was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who proved that insulin accelerates glucose transport across the muscle cell membrane.
Charles R. Schuster
Charles R. "Bob" Schuster (1930–2011) was an American behavioral pharmacologist who showed that animals voluntarily self-administer drugs humans abuse, and directed the National Institute on Drug Abuse from 1986 to 1992.
Charles R. Scriver
Charles R. Scriver was a Canadian physician and biochemical geneticist at McGill University and the Montreal Children's Hospital, called the father of biochemical genetics in Canada.
Charles Rawlinson Park
Charles Rawlinson Park, known as Rollo Park (1916–2016), was an American physician and physiologist at Vanderbilt University who studied how insulin controls glucose entry into cells.
Charles Richard Taylor
Charles Richard Taylor (1939–1995), known as C. Richard Taylor, was a comparative physiologist and Harvard professor who studied the energetics and efficiency of animal locomotion.
Charles Richet
Charles Robert Richet (1850–1935) was a French physiologist, professor of physiology in Paris from 1887 to 1927, awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize for discovering anaphylaxis with Paul Portier.
Charles Richet (1882–1966)
Charles Richet (1882–1966) was a French physician and nutrition specialist, professor at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, and son of the Nobel laureate physiologist Charles Richet.
Charles Rotimi
Charles Rotimi (born 1957) is a Nigerian-born genetic epidemiologist and scientific director of the National Human Genome Research Institute since 2021, known for research on ancestry, disease, and African genomics.
Charles Rupert Stockard
Charles Rupert Stockard (1879–1939) was an American anatomist and zoologist who led anatomy at Cornell University Medical College and showed alcohol and other agents deform developing embryos.
Charles S. Abrams
Charles S. Abrams is an American hematologist and physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who researches platelet activation and bleeding disorders and led the American Society of Hematology.
Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver, also known as Charles Carver, was an American personality and health psychologist at the University of Miami, best known for the COPE inventory and BIS/BAS scales.
Charles S. Craik
Charles S. Craik is a biochemist and molecular biologist, a UCSF professor since 1985 whose protease research contributed to HIV protease inhibitors and founded biotech companies.
Charles S. Davidson
Charles S. Davidson (1910–2000) was an American hepatologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston City Hospital who founded the first American clinical research unit for liver disease.
Charles S. Fuchs
Charles S. Fuchs is an American medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers who directed the Yale Cancer Center and led the REGARD gastric cancer trial.