When Daniel Alcides Carrión García died in Lima, Peru, in 1885 at the age of 28, he had never published a scientific paper and did not have a medical degree. Yet more than a century later, he is still considered a national medical hero in Peru, and his name is attached to a major Peruvian medical center near Lima, a province in the Andes mountains, as well as a University and the highest-altitude football stadium in the world – both in Cerro de Pasco, the small mountain city where he was born in 1857.
When Daniel Alcides Carrión García died in Lima, Peru, in 1885 at the age of 28, he had never published a scientific paper and did not have a medical degree. Yet more than a century later, he is still considered a national medical hero in Peru, and his name is attached to a major Peruvian medical center near Lima, a province in the Andes mountains, as well as a University and the highest-altitude football stadium in the world – both in Cerro de Pasco, the small mountain city where he was born in 1857.