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the father of Microbiology and known for his work on the improvement of the microscope

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Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1660)-

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Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox

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Edward Jenner (1796)

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Identified organs by their types of tissues, founding histology

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Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1800)

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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 rabbit

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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 bacilli

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Robert Koch (1877)

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Describe 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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identified and named blood group antigens the ABO

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Karl Landsteiner (1902)

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Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

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August Von Wasserman (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 westguard control rules into clinical laboratory quality control

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James Westguard (1973)

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Introduced the hepatitis B vaccine

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Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

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Developed polymerase Chain Reaction

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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 first human Stem Cell line

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James Thomson (1998)

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