Biologist timeline

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey

    discovered that the heart pumped blood throughout the body.
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner

    he carried out a famous experiment, he created a vaccine that prevented or curred small pox.
  • William Smith

    William Smith

    came up with the fact that evolution has occurred over time.
  • Georges Cuvier

    Georges Cuvier

    he provided irrefutable proof of the occurrence of evolution.
  • Adam Sedgwick

    Adam Sedgwick

    he was the namer of the Devonian and Cambrian periods.
  • Louis Agassiz

    Louis Agassiz

    Proposed the occurance of past ice ages
  • Charle Darwin

    Charle Darwin

    proposed that evolution occurs through natural selection.
  • Alfred Wallace

    Alfred Wallace

    Developed the theory of evolution
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale

    she layed the foundation for professional nursing
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister

    he discovered that 45-50% of amputation patients died from sepsis.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur

    Came up with the process of pasteurization
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel

    developed Medels Laws of Herdity
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch

    he studied and published his methods of staining, fixing, and photographing bacteria
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton

    founded American Red Cross
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich

    he developed tuberculosis
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming

    he discovered Lysosomes
  • Dr.Charles Drews

    Dr.Charles Drews

    he stored blood as plasma to increase storage life
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk

    his vaccine for polio was approved, he studied polio
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin

    his Polio vaccing was used on more than 100 million children in Europe.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus

    published a pamphlet about over population