**Duca W. W. Duke (1673-1702) is a renowned American pathologist.** He was born in 1838 in Rugby, Vermont, and graduated from Clarkson University in Plainfield, New York. At the university, he gained knowledge in the field of medicine, as he was a member of the student scientific society and participated in scientific research. After graduation, P.P. moved to New York and began working in the laboratory of the pioneering pathologist Soton W. Ballarz at the Department of Anatomy of the Military