Owsei Temkin

Owsei Temkin
Group Photograph: (left to right) Stephen d'Irsay, A.C. Klebs, H.E. Sigerist, Karl Sudhoff, F.W.T. Hunger, Owsei Temkin. Leipzig Iconographic Collections Keywords: Arnold Carl Klebs; Henry Ernest Sigerist; Karl Friedrich Jacob Sudhoff; F.W.T. Hunger; Owsei Temkin; Stephen d' Irsay
Native name	Аўсей Цемкін
Born	(1902-10-06)October 6, 1902 Russia
Died	July 18, 2002(2002-07-18) (aged 99)
Nationality	America
Fields	History of Medicine
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University
Education	University of Leipzig
Notable awards	Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize

Owsei Temkin (Belarusian: Аўсей Цемкін; October 6, 1902 – July 18, 2002) was William H. Welch Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He was a Russian-born, German-educated, American medical historian.

After receiving his M.D. from the University of Leipzig in 1927, he moved to the United States and, in 1932 became director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He became known as one of the world's foremost experts on the interaction of medicine and culture throughout history. During his academic career and retirement, he published hundreds of articles and a dozen books on the history of medicine. His last book was published in the year of his death at age 99.

Temkin received the Welch Medal and the Sarton Prize and was elected to the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.