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