9/8/22 Flashcards

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Louis Pasteur

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Discovered pasteurization: food is treated with a mild heat, eliminates pathogens, extends shelf-life, widely used in dairy industry

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Emil von Behring

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-Nobel prize winner in medicine
-Discovers antitoxins
-Develops tetanus and diphtheria vaccines
-Savior of children

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William Conrad Roentgen

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German mechanical engineer and physicist
Discovers x-rays

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Felix Hoffman

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German chemist
Re-synthesizes diamorphine
Bayer name

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Karl Landsteiner

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Austrian biologist and physician
Introduces system to classify blood in to A,B,AB, O

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Dr. Paul Dudley White

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-American physician and cardiologist
-Advocate for preventative medicine
-Founders of the AHA
-Pioneers the use of ECG

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Edward Mallanby

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-English physician
-Discover the lack of Vitamin D in the diet causes Rickets

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Sir Alexander Fleming

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-Scottish physician, microbiologist and pharmacologist
-Discovers Penicillin: strep throat
-Won Nobel prize in medicine

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Percy Lavon Julian

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-American chemist
-Synthesized progesterone, testosterone, and estrogen from plant sterols

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Bernard Fantus

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Hungarian Jewish=American physician
Pioneers the use of the first blood bank in Chicago

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Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik

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Austrian dentist
Publishes first paper on medical ultrasonic- ultrasound

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Selman A Waksman

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Jewish-American microbiologist and chemist
Discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
Credited for the antibiotics

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John Hopps

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Invented Pacemaker

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Paul Zoll

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Develops pacemaker

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