ORGANIZATION

Founded 1948 as an agency of the United Nations.

Official Website:
http://www.who.int/

Location:
Geneva, Switzerland

Founding Date:
7-Apr-1948

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David W. K. Acheson	Government	?		Food Safety Czar
Edgar Adrian	Scientist	30-Nov-1889	4-Aug-1977	Electricity within nerve cells
Kofi Annan	Government	8-Apr-1938		Secretary General of the UN, 1997-2006
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi	Scientist	30-Jul-1947		Co-Discoverer of HIV
Medea Benjamin	Activist	10-Sep-1952		CODEPINK, Global Exchange cofounder
Sune K. Bergström	Scientist	10-Jan-1916	15-Aug-2004	Prostaglandins
Sissela Bok	Scholar	2-Dec-1934		Ethicist
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Scientist	3-Sep-1899	31-Aug-1985	Acquired immunological tolerance
Robert N. Butler	Doctor	21-Jan-1927	4-Jul-2010	Expert on aging
John Cavanagh	Economist	1955		Institute for Policy Studies
Margaret F. C. Chan	Doctor	1947		WHO Director-General
Brock Chisholm	Doctor	18-May-1896	4-Feb-1971	First Director-General of World Health Organization
Lester Crawford	Government	13-Mar-1938		FDA Commissioner, 2005
Gertrude B. Elion	Scientist	23-Jan-1918	21-Feb-1999	Developed medicines for leukemia, herpes, AIDS
Corneille Heymans	Scientist	28-Mar-1892	18-Jul-1968	Aortic and carotid chemoreceptors
Niels K. Jerne	Scientist	23-Dec-1911	7-Oct-1994	Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Lee Jong-Wook	Administrator	12-Apr-1945	22-May-2006	Director-General of WHO, 2003-06
Jim Yong Kim	Administrator	8-Dec-1959		President of the World Bank
Joshua Lederberg	Biologist	23-May-1925	2-Feb-2008	Genetic properties of bacteria
Joseph Rotblat	Physicist	4-Nov-1908	31-Aug-2005	Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist
Albert Sabin	Biologist	26-Aug-1906	3-Mar-1993	Developed oral polio vaccine
Wendell M. Stanley	Chemist	16-Aug-1904	15-Jun-1971	First to crystallize a virus
William R. Steiger	Government	c. 1969		HHS Office of Global Health Affairs
Harold E. Varmus	Scientist	18-Dec-1939		Genetic causes of cancer
Jeffrey Wigand	Scientist	17-Dec-1942		Tobacco industry whistleblower

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