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Gazi Yaşargil

Turkish-Swiss neurosurgeon (1925-2025) · Turkey · Doctors · Died at 99

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Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design.

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Awards

Fedor Krause Medal2000
Marcel Benoist Prize1975

About this person

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss medical scientist and neurosurgeon. He collaborated with Raymond M. P. Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours with instruments of his own design. From 1953 until his retirement in 1993, he was first resident, chief resident and then professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich and the Zurich University Hospital. In 1999, he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950-1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. He was a founding member of Eurasian Academy.

Country
Turkey
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1925 to 2025 · aged 99

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