Gazi Yaşargil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gazi Yaşargil

Turkish neurosurgeon

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1925

Place of Birth: Lice, Turkey

Profession: scientist, physician, surgeon, neurosurgeon

Nationality: Turkey

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mahmut Gazi Yasargil (born July 6, 1925) is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon.
He collaborated with Raymond M.
P.
Donaghy M.D at the University of Vermont in developing microneurosurgery.
Yasargil treated epilepsy and brain tumors 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.
In 1999 he was honored as "Neurosurgery’s Man of the Century 1950–1999" at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting. He is a founding member of Eurasian Academy.
He is regarded as one of the greatest neurosurgeons in the modern age.