Pioneers
The people credited on milestones in the timelines. Portraits appear only where an openly licensed image has been verified; otherwise a monogram stands in.
1798-1866 · Physician and morbid anatomist at Guy's Hospital, London; author of the 1832 paper on enlargement of the absorbent glands and spleen
2 milestones, from 1832
1801-1858 · Author of a monograph on the microscopic structure of tumours, Teacher of Rudolf Virchow
2 milestones, from 1838
Physician, author of case 1 in an 1845 journal article on splenic disease
1 milestone, from 1845
Lecturer on the Practice of Physic and on Clinical Medicine; pathologist to the Royal Infirmary
1 milestone, from 1845
Physician at Guy's Hospital, London; author of the 1856 and 1865 papers that led to the name Hodgkin's disease
1 milestone, from 1865
Pathologist at the Institute for Pathological Histology and Bacteriology, University of Vienna, as named on the title page of his 1898 paper on a form of tuberculosis of the lymphatic apparatus in cases labelled pseudoleukaemia
1 milestone, from 1898
born 1874 · Fellow in pathology at Johns Hopkins University; author of the 1902 Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports paper on the pathological changes in Hodgkin's disease
1 milestone, from 1898
1870-1945 · Associate Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University (1905 byline)
1 milestone, from 1905
1841-1917 · Surgeon, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1909
1 milestone, from 1909
1865-1950 · Biologist, Translator of Boveri's 1914 monograph
1 milestone, from 1914
1895-1955 · Physician and investigator of radioiodine therapy for metastatic thyroid carcinoma
1 milestone, from 1946
Physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital; early radioiodine research
1 milestone, from 1946
1903-1973 · Paediatric pathologist, Pioneer of modern chemotherapy
3 milestones, from 1948
Author of a 1939 report from Geneva, Switzerland, on radiotherapy in Hodgkin disease
1 milestone, from 1950
1911-1993 · Radiotherapist; author of the 1950 Toronto study of survival in Hodgkin disease
2 milestones, from 1950
1912-1990 · French surgical oncologist, Developer of the anatomic tumour-extent classification that became TNM
1 milestone, from 1952
Hodgkin disease researcher at Stanford University Medical School; author of the 1962 Radiology paper on radical radiotherapy and senior author of the 1985 summary of the Stanford randomised trials
2 milestones, from 1962
1920-2012 · Researcher in hormone action and estrogen receptors
1 milestone, from 1971
1925-2013 · Author of the 1973 Nature letter on a consistent chromosomal abnormality in chronic myelogenous leukaemia
1 milestone, from 1973
born 1951 · Co-author of the 1984 Lancet series on curved bacilli in gastritis and ulcer, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005
1 milestone, from 1983
1937-2024 · First author of the 1983 Lancet letter on curved bacilli in active chronic gastritis, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2005
1 milestone, from 1983
Author of a 1982 paper on impotence after radical prostatectomy and first author of a 1983 report of a modified radical retropubic prostatectomy
1 milestone, from 1983