Geburtsdatum | Montag, 06. Juli 1925 |
Geburtsort | Lice,_Turkey |
Todesdatum | Dienstag, 10. Juni 2025 |
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Beschreibung | Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (born 6 July 1925) is a Turkish 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 is a founding member of Eurasian Academy. He is regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the modern age. |
