Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Laboratory

Question 1

Father of Mircobiology, invented microscope, 1660

Answer 1

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Question 2

Discovered vaccination, establish immunity for small pox, had an impact for Immunology, 1796

Answer 2

Edward Jenner

Question 3

Identified organs by their types of
tissues, had an impact for Histology, 1880

Answer 3

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Question 4

Produced disease in worms by injection
of organic material, beginning of Bacteriology, 1835

Answer 4

Agostino Bassi

Question 5

Produced immunity for rabies, 1857

Answer 5

• Louis Pasteur

Question 6

Law of inherited characteristics from studies of plants, 1866

Answer 6

Gregor Mendel

Question 7

Demonstrated that surgical infections
are caused by airborne organisms, 1870

Answer 7

Joseph Lister

Question 8

Presented pictures of bacilli (anthrax), 1877

Answer 8

Robert Koch

Question 9

Described phagocytes in the blood, 1886

Answer 9

Elie Metchnikoff

Question 10

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery, 1886

Answer 10

Ernst von Bergmann

Question 11

Distinguished blood group through ABO group system, 1902

Answer 11

Karl Landsteiner

Question 12

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis, 1906

Answer 12

August von Wasserman

Question 13

Discoved microorganisms that lies between bacteria and viruses called ricketsiae, 1906

Answer 13

Howard Ricketts

Question 14

Worked the structure of hemoglobin, 1929

Answer 14

Hans Fisher

Question 15

Developed Poliomyelitis vaccine, 1954

Answer 15

Jonas Salk

Question 16

Introduced Westgard rules for quality control of laboratories, 1973

Answer 16

James Westgard

Question 17

Introduced Hepatitis B vaccine

Answer 17

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, 1980

Question 18

Developed the PCR, 1985

Answer 18

Kary Mullis

Question 19

Introduced intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF), 1992

Answer 19

Andre van Steirteghem

Question 20

Derived the first human stem cell line, 1998

Answer 20

James Thomsom