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Invention and Innovation in the Field of MedTech Flashcards

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The father of microbiology known for
his work on the improvement of the
microscope

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

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Agostino Bassi

1835

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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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5
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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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Presented the first pictures of bacilli (anthrax), and later tubercle bacilli

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Robert Koch

1877

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Introduced steam sterilization in surgery

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Ernst von Bergmann

1886

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Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

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August von Wassermann

1906

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Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

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Hans Fischer

1829

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Demonstrated that surgical infections are cause by airborne organisms

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Joseph Lister

1870

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

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Karl Landsteiner

1902

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Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsia

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Howard Ricketts

1906

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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 the clinical laboratory

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James Westgard

1973

17
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Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

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Kary Mullis

1985

18
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Derived the first human Stem Cell line

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James Thomson

1998

19
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Introduced the Hepatitis B vaccine

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg

1980

20
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Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)

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Andre van Steirteghem

1992

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