9/8/22 Flashcards
Louis Pasteur
Discovered pasteurization: food is treated with a mild heat, eliminates pathogens, extends shelf-life, widely used in dairy industry
Emil von Behring
-Nobel prize winner in medicine
-Discovers antitoxins
-Develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
-Savior of children
William Conrad Roentgen
German mechanical engineer and physicist
Discovers x-rays
Felix Hoffman
German chemist
Re-synthesizes diamorphine
Bayer name
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian biologist and physician
Introduces system to classify blood in to A,B,AB, O
Dr. Paul Dudley White
-American physician and cardiologist
-Advocate for preventative medicine
-Founders of the AHA
-Pioneers the use of ECG
Edward Mallanby
-English physician
-Discover the lack of Vitamin D in the diet causes Rickets
Sir Alexander Fleming
-Scottish physician, microbiologist and pharmacologist
-Discovers Penicillin: strep throat
-Won Nobel prize in medicine
Percy Lavon Julian
-American chemist
-Synthesized progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen from plant sterols
Bernard Fantus
Hungarian Jewish=American physician
Pioneers the use of the first blood bank in Chicago
Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik
Austrian dentist
Publishes first paper on medical ultrasonic- ultrasound
Selman A Waksman
Jewish-American microbiologist and chemist
Discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
Credited for the antibiotics
John Hopps
Invented Pacemaker
Paul Zoll
Develops pacemaker