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Gazi Yaşargil

1925 - 2025

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Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (6 July 1925 – 10 June 2025) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gazi Yaşargil is the 437th most popular physician (up from 515th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,053rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Turkish Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Gazi Yaşargil ranks 437 out of 726. Before him are Adelaida Avagyan, Theodor Meynert, Zilda Arns, Hilary Koprowski, Wilhelm Stekel, and Realdo Colombo. After him are Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Crawford Long, James Braid, Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Ernest Duchesne, and Giorgio Biandrata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Gazi Yaşargil ranks 214. Before him are Nonna Mordyukova, Justo Gallego Martínez, Robert Mulligan, Matías González, Elmore Leonard, and Italo De Zan. After him are Elisabeth Domitien, Evelyn Berezin, Lenny Bruce, Edward Gorey, Bobbejaan Schoepen, and Ofelya Hambardzumyan. Among people deceased in 2025, Gazi Yaşargil ranks 146. Before him are Tom Robbins, Buvaisar Saitiev, Jayant Narlikar, Sly Stone, Bernhard Vogel, and Kiril Ivkov. After him are Loretta Swit, Dick Button, Taina Elg, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Pamela Bach, and Claude Allègre.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Gazi Yaşargil ranks 892 out of 1,347. Before him are Yıldırım Akbulut (1935), Demetrios Ypsilantis (1793), Alypius the Stylite (700), Arsenios Autoreianos (1200), Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddin (1857), and Anthimus VI of Constantinople (1782). After him are Mehmed Orhan (1909), Jan Rustem (1762), Theodotus I of Constantinople (null), Metin Oktay (1936), John III of Trebizond (1321), and Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha (1666).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Türkiye

Among physicians born in Türkiye, Gazi Yaşargil ranks 13. Before him are Ctesias (-440), Aretaeus of Cappadocia (100), Soranus of Ephesus (98), Asclepiades of Bithynia (-120), Caesarius of Nazianzus (330), and Aëtius of Amida (502). After him are Hulusi Behçet (1889), Rufus of Ephesus (100), Serenus Sammonicus (200), Türkan Saylan (1935), and Georgi Valkovich (1833).

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