Key people in the modern world (1900-) Flashcards
Who was Emil Von Behring?
He discovered the Diptheria antitoxin in 1901. At the time, this was a huge killer of children.
Who was Paul Ehrlich?
Leader of the research team the discovered salvarsan 606 in 1909. This was a successful chemical cure of syphilis.
Who was David Lloyd George?
Leader of the Liberal Government in the early 1900s. He passed a series of reforms, which made the government more involved in the day to day care to people.
Who was Alexander Fleming?
In 1928, he wrote a paper on the healing substance that surrounded mould.
Who was Archibald Garrod?
He published a theory in 1902 that some diseases were caused by missing information in the body’s chemical pathways.
Who were Howard Florey and Ernst Chain?
Developed penicillin using the principles of the research of Alexander Fleming.
Who was Nye Bevan?
Health Minister in the Labour government of 1945 and after. He was influential in setting up the NHS.
Who were Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick?
Franklin photographed DNA and Watson and Crick were the scientists who mapped out is structure and discovered the once of it in relation to hereditary diseases.
