Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Laboratory (BOOK)

Question 1

Father of Microbiology and first published drawings of bacteria under the microscope

Answer 1

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (1660)

Question 2

Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox

Impact: Immunology

Answer 2

Edward Jenner (1796)

Question 3

Identified organs by their types of tissues

Impact: Histology

Answer 3

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1880)

Question 4

Produced disease in worms by injections of organic material

Impact: Bacteriology

Answer 4

Agostino Bassi (1835)

Question 5

Produced immunity to rabies

Answer 5

Louis Pasteur (1857)

Question 6

Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants

Answer 6

Gregor Mendel

Question 7

Demonstrated that surgical infections are cause by airborne organisms

Answer 7

Joseph Lister

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Robert Koch (1977)

Question 9

Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection

Answer 9

Elie Metchnikoff (1886)

Question 10

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery

Answer 10

Ernst Von Bergmann (1886)

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Karl Landsteiner (1902)

Question 12

Developed immunologic test for syphilis

Answer 12

August Von Wassermann (1906)

Question 13

Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae

Answer 13

Howard Ricketts (1906)

Question 14

Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

Answer 14

Hans Fischer (1926)

Question 15

Developed poliomyelitis vaccine (inactivated)

Answer 15

Jonas Salk (1954)

Question 16

Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory

Answer 16

James Westgard (1973)

Question 17

Introduced the Hepatitis B vaccine

Answer 17

Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1980)

Question 18

Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Answer 18

Kary Mullis (1985)

Question 19

Introduced the Intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Answer 19

Andre Van Steirteghem (1992)