Invention and Innovation in the Field of MedTech Flashcards
The father of microbiology known for
his work on the improvement of the
microscope
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
1660
Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; Impact of contribution: Immunology
Edward Jenner
1796
Produced disease in worms by injection of organic material-the beginning of bacteriology
Agostino Bassi
1835
Identified organs by their types of tissues;
Impact of contribution: Histology
Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
1880
Successfully produced immunity to rabies
Louis Pasteur
1857
Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants
Gregor Mendel
1866
Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli
Robert Koch
1877
Introduced steam sterilization in surgery
Ernst von Bergmann
1886
Developed immunologic tests for syphilis
August von Wassermann
1906
Worked out the structure of hemoglobin
Hans Fischer
1829
Demonstrated that surgical infections are cause by airborne organisms
Joseph Lister
1870
Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection
Elie Metchnikoff
1886
Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system
Karl Landsteiner
1902
Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsia
Howard Ricketts
1906
Developed poliomyelitis vaccine
Jonas Salk
1954
