Medical Advances Timeline

  • Zacharius Jannssen

    Zacharius Jannssen
    He invented the microscope after experimenting several lenses.
  • Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch

    Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
    They established the germ theory of disease. It's a specific disease that is caused by a specific organism. The diseases states that many diseases are caused by microorganisms.
  • Karl Landsteiner

    Karl Landsteiner
    He introduces the system to classify blood into A, B, AB, and O groups
  • Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins

    Sir Fredrick Gowland Hopkins
    He suggests that vitamins are essential of health and he receives the 1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine.
  • Dr.Paul Dudley White

    Dr.Paul Dudley White
    He's one of America's first cardiologists and a pioneer in use of the electrocardiographs. He specializes in the heart and its functions
  • Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis

    Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis
    They discovered the first vaccine for influenza, It was used to protect the U.S military forces against the flu during World War 2.
  • Dolly the sheep

    Dolly the sheep
    Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell. She was cloned at Roslin Institute. She died at the age of six.
  • Test tube baby

    Test tube baby
    In Oldham, England, Louise Joy Brown is the world's first "test-tube baby." She had a C-section before midnight on July 25 at the Oldham General Hospital.
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Human Immunodeficiency Virus
    HIV is a virus that is the cause of AIDS. It attacks the immune system. It was discovered by research groups led by Dr. Gallo, Dr. Luc Montagnier and Dr. Jay Levy.
  • Adjuvant Chemotherapy

    Adjuvant Chemotherapy
    Adjuvant Chemotherapy is shown to improve survival in patients with pancreatic cancer