Which Medical Innovator are you most closely connected to?

Question

This week's Example Profile is Louis Pasteur, whose research was responsible for pasteurization and breakthroughs in vaccination, among many other innovations.

Featured alongside him in the Connection Finder are other medical innovators:

• Alexander Wood
• Solomon Fuller
• Frederick Banting
• Virginia Apgar
• Willem Einthoven
• Frederick Hollows
• Joseph Lister
• Florence Nightingale
• Edward Jenner
• Jane Wright

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 22,396,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

Please, share your connection here on this G2G thread, rather than on the profiles featured or in private messages to those profile managers. Share with family and friends, too!

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Let us know below!

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Comments

It is Willem, not William Einthoven

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I'm most closely connected to Frederick Banting, at 19 degrees.

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Hello all, I am not sure if anyone else here knows, but there is a High School named in his honour. It’s Banting Memorial High School, 203 Victoria St., E., Allison, Ontario, Canada

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Joseph Lister at 25 degrees.

Answer 2

13 degrees from Virginia Apgar--closest connection ever and I never heard of her before.

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We may not have heard of her - but have you not heard of the APGAR tests when babies are born?   A number out of 10 that babies get the minute they are born and then again 5 minutes later.  I think this may have been her idea...

My sons APGAR Numbers were 9 at birth and then 10, just 5 minutes later!!

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She is indeed the innovator of the Apgar Scale.  So simple and yet so effective.

Answer 3

18 degrees from Virginia Apgar.

Answer 4

I am most closely connected to Joseph Lister at 19 degrees.

• 19 degrees from Joseph Lister
• 23 degrees from Frederick Banting
• 23 degrees from Alexander Wood
• 24 degrees from Virginia Apgar
• 24 degrees from Florence Nightingale
• 25 degrees from Edward Jenner
• 26 degrees from Solomon Fuller
• 28 degrees from Willem Einthoven
• 34 degrees from Frederick Hollows
• 41 degrees from Louis Pasteur
• 49 degrees from Jane Jones

Answer 5

Virginia Apgar at 17 degrees, and a 10th cousin twice removed.  She seems to be well connected to people on Wikitree.

Answer 6

I am amazed.  I am only 17 degrees from Edward Jenner, and for once, the line doesn't pass through my wife or her cousin John Bernie (Bernie-17.) There was a Jenner family living next door to my parents in Geelong.

Answer 7

15 degrees from Virginia Apgar (10th cousins, 2x removed)
19 degrees from Frederick Banting (8th cousins, 2x removed)
20 degrees from Florence Nightingale
21 degrees from Joseph Lister
21 degrees from Alexander Wood
23 degrees from Willem Einthoven
23 degrees from Edward Jenner
27 degrees from Solomon Fuller
30 degrees from Frederick Hollows
35 degrees from Louis Pasteur
49 degrees from Jane Jones

Answer 8

26 from Frederick Banting.

Answer 9

• 15 degrees from Florence Nightingale and 15 degrees from Edward Jenner
• 19 degrees from Joseph Lister and 19 degrees from Alexander Wood
• 21 degrees from Willem Einthoven
• 22 degrees from Frederick Hollows
• 23 degrees from Frederick Banting
• 25 degrees from Virginia Apgar
• 26 degrees from Solomon Fuller
• 40 degrees from Louis Pasteur, 
• 52 degrees from Jane Jones

Edit: Had Julius Jeffreys made the list, he would have been the closest connection at 7 degrees

Answer 10

9 degrees from Frederick Banting, my closest connection yet.

Answer 11

My closest is the Canadian Frederick Banting, at 16 degrees. Additionally, we are 7th cousins three times removed. He is related to me on account of some Loyalist ancestors who left New York during the American Revolution, and were cousins to ancestors of mine who remained in New York.

My most distant is Jane (Wright) Jones, at 50 degrees. After seeing that, I have put in a little bit of effort toward connecting her better, by starting to build out the profiles for the family of her husband.

Answer 12

18 degree from SirJoseph Lister

Answer 13

Florence Nightingale is my favourite person out of this set!

• 19 degrees ~ Frederick Banting
• 20 degrees ~ Virginia Apgar
• 21 degrees ~ Joseph Lister
• 22 degrees ~ Alexander Wood
• 23 degrees ~ Edward Jenner
• 24 degrees ~ Florence Nightingale
• 25 degrees ~ Willem Einthoven
• 26 degrees ~ Solomon Fuller
• 29 degrees ~ Frederick Hollows
• 39 degrees ~ Louis Pasteur
• 52 degrees ~ Jane Jones

Answer 14

I am most closely related to Virginia Apgar, who is a 9th cousin, once removed through our common ancestor Edward Spaulding.

I know of the Apgar scores because of the birth of my two children, who to my relief scored 9 and 10 on them. I didn't know who developed them.

Answer 15

16 degrees from Alexander Wood, 

16 degrees from Joseph Lister, 

17 degrees from Florence Nightingale, 

19 degrees from Edward Jenner,  

20 degrees from Frederick Banting, 

23 degrees from Virginia Apgar, 

24 degrees from Willem Einthoven, 

28 degrees from Solomon Fuller, 

28 degrees from Frederick Hollows, 

37 degrees from Louis Pasteur,  

53 degrees from Jane Jones 

Answer 16

18 degrees from Frederick Banting

Virginia Apgar and I are 21st cousins five times removed via Isabel de (Luxembourg) Dampierre.

Answer 17

I am most closely connected to Virginia Apgar & Frederick Banting, both at 21 Degrees.

Answer 18

Virginia Apgar 19 degrees and 15th cousins 1X removed through MRCA Thomas Boys

19 degrees from Frederick Banting

19 degrees from Alexander Wood

Answer 19

18 degrees from Frederick Banting, but no relation.

Virginia Apgar is my 15th cousin twice removed

Answer 20

Considering that Fred Hollows is also from New Zealand, I am not surprised that he is my closest connection!!!

Robynne is

19 degrees from Frederick Hollows,
20 degrees from Florence Nightingale,
20 degrees from Edward Jenner,
21 degrees from Alexander Wood,
22 degrees from Frederick Banting,
22 degrees from Willem Einthoven,
23 degrees from Joseph Lister,
23 degrees from Virginia Apgar,
26 degrees from Dave Welburn
31 degrees from Solomon Fuller,
35 degrees from Louis Pasteur,
53 degrees from Jane Jones