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Julius Jacobson

A man with gray hair and glasses, wearing a black lab coat and stethoscope, stands with his arms crossed against a dark background illuminated by a grid of lights.

An American vascular surgeon who pioneered the use of the surgical microscope for repairing blood vessels in 1960. Working at the University of Vermont, Jacobson performed the first microscopic anastomoses on canine arteries. He demonstrated a near-perfect success rate in vessels previously considered entirely too small to repair, foundational work that made modern reconstructive surgery possible.

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