scientist impact on biology

  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    Harvey explained the ways of the circulatory system and how the blood flows through your body
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    he discovered that there was a disease called cowpox and he took the liquid from her and then inserted liquid from a person with smallpox to cure it.
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus
    He became famous for his principle of population in 1798
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    Gregor Mendel

    he did an experiment on plants hybrization and discovered laws of inheritance.
  • Charle Darwin

    Charle Darwin
    he published a detailed explanation of his theory of evolution.
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale
    her nursing theory was published.
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    in 1865 lister took carbolic acid to make a diagnoses to cure up cuts or wounds.
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    he became famous for isolating bacillus anthracis but wasn’t tell 1877 when he finally fully diagnosed it
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton
    she founded the American red cross.
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    he acquired the vaccine for rabies
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    he finally got recongnization for first discovering and hunting for a cure of syphilis
  • Frederick Griffiths

    Frederick Griffiths
    Griffith tried to make a vaccine for against a disease causing virulent on a bacterium strain
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    he discovered penicillin the first bacterial killer.
  • Howard Florey

    Howard Florey
    Isolate penicillin and create first antibiotic drug.
  • Oswald Avery

    Oswald Avery
    he tried to expand on Griffiths experiment and determine if it was DNA or RNA.
  • Dr.Charles Drews

    Dr.Charles Drews
    drew took blood in New York City hospitals to transfer them to Britain he was known as the “plasma of Britain”
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    he observed that adenine equals thymine and cytosine equals guanine.
  • James Watson

    James Watson
    he put together a model for the structure of DNA.
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    he discovered an vaccine that will once and for all get rid of polio.
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    he went to brazil to round up the cure for polio there and by that he ultimately eliminated polio from western hemispheres.