Rickman Godlee, English surgeon and academic (d. 1925)
Sir Rickman John Godlee, 1st Baronet (15 February 1849 – 18 April 1925) was an English surgeon. In 1884 he became one of the first doctors to surgically remove a brain tumor, founding modern brain surgery.
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