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HISTORY OF MEDTECH PROFESSION - INVENTIONS, INOVATIONS, AND PIONEERS Flashcards

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Father of microbiology; known for his improvement of the microscope

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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek (1660)

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Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; impact of contribution: Immunology

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Edward Jenner (1796)

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Identified organs by their types of tissues; impact of contribution: Histology

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1880)

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Produced disease in worms by injection of organic material — the beginning of bacteriology

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Agostino Bassi (1835)

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Successfully produced immunity to rabies

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Louis Pasteur (1857)

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Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants

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Gregor Mendel (1866)

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Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms

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Joseph Lister (1870)

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Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacillli

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Robert Koch (1877)

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Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

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Elie Metchnikoff (1886)

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Introduced steam sterilization in surgery

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Ernst von Bergmann (1886)

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Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system

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Karl Landsteiner (1902)

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Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

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August von Wassermann (1906)

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Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae.

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Howard Ricketts (1906)

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Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

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Hans Fischer (1929)

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Developed poliomyelitis vaccine

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Jonas Salk (1954)

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Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in clinical laboratory

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James Westgard (1973)

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Introduced Hepatitis B vaccine

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

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Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

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Kary Mullis (1985)

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Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)

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Andre van Steirteghem (1992)

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Derived the first human stem cell line

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James Thomson (1998)

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