George Nikolic

George Nikolić also spelled Giorgio Nicolich (1852 – 11 February 1925) was an Austrian and Italian surgeon and urologist, renowned as a European pioneer in the treatments of tuberculosis and kidneys.

In 1907, he was appointed president of the Trieste Medical Society, whose uncle Djordje Nikolić (1818–1886) was one of the founders, a position he would hold for the rest of his life.

In 1919, he established the first Department of Urology in Italy at the Faculty of Medicine in Florence, and two years later, in 1921, he founded the first Italian Society of Urologists and was its first president.

[7] He introduced the world's first surgical intervention in the treatment of tuberculosis of the kidneys and was one of the first doctors in Europe to perform prostatectomy.

He was made member of several medical and scientific academies and societies throughout Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, United Kingdom and the Western Hemisphere.