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Published a book of how the heart beats and how the blood is pumped across the body.
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Observed small structures in cork through a microscope and called them cells.
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First person to observe living cells.
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Discovered that cowpox could stop the spread of small pox.
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Published theories on population growth: what controls it, how it increases and decreases, and what keeps it from getting to big.
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Published his theory of how organism can evolve and adapt to their environments and that we all come from one common ancestor.
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Improved cleanliness and sterilization in hospitals and war zones to help reduce the health rate.
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Disproved the spontaneous generating theory by boiling broth in a air tight container and after several days there was no micro organisms in the broth.
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Finished is experiments with pea plants and discovered how genetics work today he is considered the father of genetics.
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Studied anthrax and other diseases and discovered that they were caused by bacteria.
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Forms the American Red Cross.
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Contributed to modern and sterilization in surgery. Also made an antiseptic medicine.
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Developed away for people to become immunized to some diseases.
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Discovered penicillin that was killing bacteria.
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Discovered away to store blood plasma without killing the cells so that it could be used in blood transfusions.
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DIscovered that adenine pair with guanine and thymine pairs with cytosine.
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Put together a DNA structure with the double helix shape.
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Discovered a vaccine that treated polio disease.
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Discovered a new influenza A virus, it caused a pandemic.
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Made a better polio vaccine that treated more of the disease better and was easier to give.