Samuel D. Gross, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetSamuel D. Gross
American surgeon
Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1805
Place of Birth: Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Death: 06-May-1884
Profession: surgeon
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Samuel D. Gross
- Samuel David Gross (July 8, 1805 – May 6, 1884) was an American academic trauma surgeon.
- Surgeon biographer Isaac Minis Hays called Gross "The Nestor of American Surgery." He is immortalized in Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic (1875), a prominent American painting of the nineteenth century.
- A bronze statue of him was cast by Alexander Stirling Calder and erected on the National Mall, but moved in 1970 to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
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