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Anton Von Leeuwenhock
Invented the microscope. -
William Harvey
Discovered the circulation of blood and the pumping of the heart. -
Benjamin Franklin
Invented bifocals and found that colds can be passed onto one another. -
Edward Jenner
Results of the smallpox were finally published. -
Rene Laennec
Invents the stethoscope. -
Crawford W. Long
Uses ether as a general anesthetic. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
First women to qualify as a doctor in the U.S. Inspired Florence Nightingale to pursue nursing. -
Joseph Lister
First doctor to use antiseptic during surgery to prevent infection in the incision. -
Clara Barton
Established the American Red Cross. -
Louis Pasteur
Rabies vaccine was proved taht mircroorganisms caused disease. -
Contact lenses were first developed
Chemistry Professor Otto Wichterle developed contact lenses. -
Wilhelm Roentgen
Discovered x-rays. -
First vaccine developed for typhoid fever
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First vaccine developed for Bubonic plague
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Earle Dickson
Band-Aid is introduced. -
Edward Mellanby
Discovers that lack of vitamin D in the diet causes rickets -
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of penicillin. -
John Hopps
Invented the first cardiac pacemaker. -
Rosalind Franklin
Uses X-ray diffraction to study the structure of DNA -
James Watson and Francis Crick
DNA structure is formed. -
Albert Sabin
Oral polio vaccine was created. -
Christian Benard
World's first heart transplant surgery. -
Robert S. Ledley
CAT-scans are invented. -
First vaccine developed for pneumonia.
Oswald Avery's lab tried finding a vaccine and finally found one for pneumonia. -
First test-tube baby is born
Louise Brown was the first successful test tube baby born.
