Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical scientist and neurosurgeon (born on July 6 1925 in Lice Diyarbakır Turkey). He is the founder of microneurosurgery. Yaşargil 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.
active years start year
1950-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth date
1925-07-06
birth place
Diyarbakır, Turkey
education
University of Basel, Ankara University
institution
University of Vermont, University of Zurich, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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