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Important People Flashcards

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Father of Biology, elements of life (fire, water, earth, air)

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Aristotle

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Father of Human Medicine
(Heat, cold, moisture, dry)

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Hippocrates

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Father of Veterinary Medicine

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Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Father of Evolution

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Charles Darwin

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Father of Genetics/Inheritance

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Johann Gregor Mendel

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Father of Human Anatomy

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Galen, Galenus of Pergamon

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Comparative Anatomy

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Andreas Vesalius

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Embryology

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Karl Ernst von Baer

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Foundation of Microbiology

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Louis Pasteur

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Modern bacteriology & microbiology

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Robert Kach

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Protozoology, Parasitology

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Rudolf Leuckart

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12
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Microscope

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Anton van Leeuwenhoek

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Human Medicine, Physiology
Discovered blood circulation (1638)

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William Harvey

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Modern Pathology, cells disturbance = sickness

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Rudolf Virchow

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Grandfather of Pharmacology, “Every drug can be a poision”

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Paracelsus
Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

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16
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Discovered cells from cork (1665)

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Robert Hooke

17
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Postulated cellular theory, botanist

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Matthias Schleiden

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Plants and animals are made up of cells, zoologist

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Theodor Schwann

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Postulated the double helical strand DNA (1953)

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Watsons and Crick

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Syphilis; antibiotics = salvarsan

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Paul Ehrlich

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Penicillin (1928) from contaminated petri dish. G+

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Alexander Fleming

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Strepmycin (1943) - G negative

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Selman Woksman

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Taxonomy

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Carolus von Linnaeus

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