medicine
Santiago Ramon y Cajal - Nobel Medicine 1906 (Banknote Spain)
Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 – 1934) was a Spanish histologist, physician, and Nobel laureate. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern neuroscience. Read Feature Article
Spain (1935) 50 Pesetas (front) - Portrait of Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Medicine 1927 (Banknote Austria)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (1857 – 1940) was an Austrian physician. In 1917 the inoculation of malaria parasites proved to be very successful in the case of dementia paralytica and earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927. Read Feature Article
Howard Florey - Nobel Medicine 1945 (Banknote Australia)
Howard Florey was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin. Read Feature Article
Australia (1994) 50 Dollars (front) Portrait of Howard Florey
Egas Moniz - Nobel Medicine 1949 (Banknote Portugal)
Egas Moniz, (1874 — 1955) was a Portuguese neurologist. He was the first Portuguese to receive a Nobel Prize, "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses". Read Feature Article
Portugal (1991) 10,000 Escudos (front) - Portrait of Egas Moniz