-
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece.
-
The Dutch naturalist and microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek used simple microscopes of his own making, discovered bacteria, protozoa, spermatozoa, rotifers, Hydra and Volvox, and also parthenogenesis in aphids.
-
Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature
-
Edward Jenner, FRS was an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. The terms "vaccine" and "vaccination" are derived from Variolae vaccinae, the term devised by Jenner to denote cowpox.
-
John Snow was an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, in part because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, London, in 1854.
-
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
-
Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and microbiologist. He is best known for his work on vaccination and microbial fermentation. The process of pasteurization is named for him.
-
Joseph Lister was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary
-
Robert Heinrich Hermann Koch was a celebrated German physician and pioneering microbiologist.
-
Hans Ernst August Buchner was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. He was the older brother of Eduard Buchner, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
