Gazi Yaşargil
Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil | |
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| Born | 6 July 1925 Lice, Diyarbakır, Turkey |
| Died | 10 June 2025 (aged 99) |
| Education | Ankara University Basel University |
| Years active | Surgical field (1950–2009) Professor of Neurosurgical Anatomy (1950–?) |
| Known for | Founding of Microneurosurgery |
| Medical career | |
| Profession | Neurosurgeon |
| Institutions | University of Vermont University of Zurich University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Istanbul University |
| Sub-specialties | Neurosurgery Microneurosurgery Neuroanatomy |
| Research | Microvascular surgery Cerebrovascular disease |
| Awards | Marcel Benoist Prize (1975) State Medal of Distinguished Service (2000) |
Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil (6 July 1925 – 10 June 2025) was 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 was a founding member of Eurasian Academy.