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Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medtech Flashcards

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Father of microbiology (year)

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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1660)

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vaccination for small pox/ immunology (year)

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Edward Jenner (1796)

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Father of histology (year)

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1880)

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demonstrated experimentally that a type of silkworm disease was due to a ‘parasitic fungus’ (year)

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Agostino Bassi (1835)

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5
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immunity to rabies

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Louis Pasteur

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Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants (1866)

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Gregor Mendel

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Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms (1870)

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Joseph Lister

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Presented the first pictures of bacilli (year)

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Robert Koch (1877)

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Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection (year)

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Elie Metchnikoff (1886)

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Introduced steam sterilization in surgery (year)

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Ernst von Bergmann (1886)

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Developed ABO blood group system (year)

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Karl Landsteiner (1902)

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Developed immunologic tests for syphilis (year)

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August von Wassermann (1906)

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Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsia (year)

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Howard Ricketts (1906)

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Worked out the structure of hemoglobin (year)

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Hans Fischer (1929)

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Poliomyelitis vaccine (year)

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Jonas Salk (1954)

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Introduced the Westgard rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory (year)

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James Westgard (1973)

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Hepatitis B vaccine (year)

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

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Hepatitis B vaccine (year)

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

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Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (year)

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Kary Mullis (1985)

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Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF) (year)

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Andre van Steirteghem (1992)

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Developed the first human stem cell line (year)

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James Thomson (1998)

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