Gazi Yaşargil, Turkish neurosurgeon and academic (died 2025)

Gazi Yaşargil

Turkish neurosurgeon (1925–2025)

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil was a Turkish-Swiss 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…