History (People) Flashcards
Father of Scientific History
Thucydides
Recorded that individuals who had previously contracted plague recivered. He recognized the immune status of those individuals
Thucydides
Wife of British Diplomat in Constantinople. Allowed her son to be inoculated (variolation)
Lady Mary Wortley
Created the smallpox vaccination from the lesions of cows with cowpox
Edward Jenner
Created the smallpox vaccination from the lesions of cows with cowpox
Edward Jenner
First demonstrated phagocytosis
Ernst Haeckel
First explained cellular mediated immunity through phagocytosis
Elie Metchnikoff
Discovered the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)
Jean Dausset
Father of Immunology
Louis Pasteur
Discovered live attentuated vaccine for rabies
Louis Pasteur
Father of Phagocytosis Theory
Elie Metchnikoff
Proposed the humoral theory of immunity
Emil Von Behring & Shibasaburo Kitasato
Demonstration of cutaneous (delayed-type) hypersensitivity
Robert Koch
Antibody formation theory
Paul Ehrlich
Immediate-hypersensitivity anaphylaxis
Paul Portier & Charles Richet
Arthus reaction of intermediate hypersensitivity
Nicolas Maurice Arthus
Hypothesis of antigen-antibody binding
John Marrack
Hypothesis of allograft rejection; Acquired immunologic tolerance with Burnet
Peter Medawar
Development of Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk & Albert Bruce Sabin
Vaccine against yellow fever
Walter Reed
Graft-versus-Host reaction
Dick W. Van Bekkum
Clonal Selection Theory
Frank MacFarlane Burnet
Interferon (viral interference)
Alick Isaacs and Jean Lindenmann