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Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish neurosurgeon and medical scientist. He is considered one of the most influential neurosurgeons of the 20th century. He is best known for his pioneering work in microsurgical techniques, particularly in the field of neurosurgery. Yaşargil was born in Lice, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. He studied medicine at Istanbul University and graduated in 1950. He then went on to specialize in neurosurgery at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he worked under the guidance of Professor Walter E. Dandy. Yaşargil is credited with developing the technique of microsurgical anastomosis, which is used to connect small blood vessels and nerves. He also developed the technique of microsurgical resection, which is used to remove tumors from the brain. Yaşargil has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the prestigious Lasker Award in 2000. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As of 2021, Gazi Yaşargil is 98 years old. He has a height of 5 feet 8 inches (173 cm) and a weight of 75 kg (165 lbs). He is married and has two children. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.

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Age 99 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 6 July 1925
Birthday 6 July
Birthplace Lice, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey
Nationality Turkey

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1984

Yaşargil published his surgical experiences in 330 papers and 13 monographs. The six-volume publication Microneurosurgery (1984–1996, Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart-New York) is the comprehensive review of his broad experiences and a major contribution to the neurosurgery literature.

1973

He is married to Dianne Bader-Gibson Yaşargil, who was the nurse in charge of the operating suite by his side since 1973.

1931

After attending Ankara Atatürk Lisesi and Ankara University in Ankara, Turkey between 1931 and 1943, he went to Germany to study medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany. His genius in developing microsurgical techniques for use in cerebrovascular neurosurgery transformed the outcomes of patients with conditions that were previously inoperable. In 1969 Yaşargil became associate professor and in 1973 professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich succeeding his mentor, Prof. Krayenbuhl. Over the next 20 years, he carried out laboratory work and clinical applications of micro techniques, performing 7500 intracranial operations in Zurich until his retirement in 1993. In 1994, Yaşargil accepted an appointment as Professor of Neurosurgery at the College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock where he is still active in the practice of micro-neurosurgery, research, and teaching.

1925

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (born 6 July 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. Yaşargil treated epilepsy and brain tumours 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.