INVENTIONS

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Father of microbiology; improved the microscope

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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

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Discovered vaccination for smallpox; contribution to immunology

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Edward Jenner

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (father of microbiology; improvement of the microscope)

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1660

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Edward Jenner (Immunology; discovered vaccination to smallpox

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1796

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Immunology`

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Edward Jenner

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father of microbiology

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anotonie van leeuwenhoek

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Identified organs by the type of tissues; significant work in histology

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (Histology; identified organs by the type of tissues)

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1880

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Produced disease in worms through injection of organic material; notable work in bacteriology

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Agostino Bassi

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Agostino Bassi ( Bacteriology; produced disease in worms by injection of organicmateria

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1835

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Developed immunity to rabies; made important contributions to microbiology

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Louis Pasteur

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Louis Pasteur (Immunity to rabies)

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1857

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Formulated laws of inheritance from studies on plants; foundational work in genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Mendel (law of inherited/heredity characteristics from studies on plants

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1866

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Established the link between surgical infections and airborne organisms

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Joseph Lister

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Produced the first pictures of bacilli and tubercle bacilli; key figure in bacteriology

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Robert Koch

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Discovered phagocytes in blood; contributed to immunology

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Elie Metchnikoff

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Developed steam sterilization techniques; significant advancement in medical equipment sterilization

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Ernest von Bergmann

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Identified the ABO blood group system

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Karl Landsteiner

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Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

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August von Wassermann

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Studied rickettsiae, microorganisms between bacteria and viruses

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Howard Ricketts

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Contributed to understanding the structure of hemoglobin

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Hans Fischer

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Developed the poliomyelitis vaccine

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Jonas Salk

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Formulated Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

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James Westgard

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Developed the Hepatitis B Vaccine

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg

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Pioneered the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique

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Kary Mullis

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Developed intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)

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Andre van Steirteghem

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Established the first human stem cell line (1998)

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James Thomson

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Joseph Lister (surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms

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1870

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Robert Koch (1st pictures of bacili and tubercle bacili

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1877

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Elie Metchnikoff (phagocytes in blood)

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1886

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Ernest von Bergmann (steam sterilization)

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1886

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Karl Landsteiner (ABO blood group system

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1902

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August von Wassermann (immunologic tests for syphilis

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1906

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Howard Ricketts (Rickettsiae; microorganisms between bacteria and viruses)

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1906

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Hans Fischer (structure of hemoglobin)

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1929

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Jonas Salk (Poliomyelitis vaccine)

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1954

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James Westgard (Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory)

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1973

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (Hepatitis B Vaccine

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1980

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Kary Mullis (Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR

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1985

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Andre van Steirteghem (intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF

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1992

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James Thomson (first human Stem Cell line)

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1998

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made the 1st description of hematuria

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Rufus of Ephesus

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a Jewish physician and philosopher; wrote the book Kitab al Baul (Book of Urine)

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Isaac Judaeus

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used in staining microorganisms

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aniline dyes

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invented the microscope which opened the door to the world of the invisible

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Zacharias Janssen and his father Hans

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Jesuit priest; one of the earliest microscopists who observed that the blood of patients with plagues contained “worms

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Athanasius Kircher

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Italian microscopist who served as a physician to Pope Innocent XII; renowned for his exploration of the embryology of chick; founding father of modern Anatomic pathology

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Marcello Malpighi

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observed that protein in the urine precipitated when boiled with Acetic acid; his findings is a useful diagnostic indicator of proteinuria

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Frederick Dekkers

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English physiologist; discovered that when the blood specimen was clotted, a plasma could be separated from the blood, he describes it as “coagulable lymph”

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William Hewson

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founded the archives of pathology in Berlin

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Rudolph Virchow

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performed the 1st quantitative test in urine sugar

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Herman Fehling

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discovered concepts of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria

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Louis Pasteur

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discovered partial heat sterilization which prevented wine spoiling due to microbes

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Louis Pasteur

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developed a vaccine against Anthrax

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Louis Pasteur