Biology

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He discovered the way blood circulated
  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    first to observed living bacteria
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    He injected a boy with cowpox then after a while he injected the boy with smallpox the boy got ill but got a full recovery a few days later.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus
    talked about the population growth
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    Developed modern theory of evolution
  • Ignaz Semmelweis

    Ignaz Semmelweis
    Discovered if you wash your hands it will spare the mother from childbed fever
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    became known as the "father of antiseptic"
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    came up with the laws of heredity
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Discovered the process of pasteurization.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    Found cures for rabies and chicken cholera
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton
    founded the American Red Cross
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    found a way to stain bacteria before gram staining
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale
    Made hospitals more sanitary
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    Discovered penicillin
  • Gerhard Domagk

    Gerhard Domagk
    made the first commercial antibiotic
  • Dr. Charles Drews

    Dr. Charles Drews
    Help find a way to store blood in large quantities
  • Howard Florey

    Howard Florey
    Created the first antibiotic drug
  • Ernst Chain

    Ernst Chain
    Isolate penicillin
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    He found a cure for polio
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    created a vaccine for polio