Scientist timeline

By YZ1996
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    first person to fully describe how blood was pumped throughout your body
  • Edward Jenner

    Edward Jenner
    “saved more lives than the work of any other man”
  • Thomas Malthus

    Thomas Malthus
    influenced darwin
  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur
    Known for causes and preventions of diseases
  • Florence Nightengale

    Florence Nightengale
    pioneered modern nursing
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin
    came up with the theory of natural selection
  • Gregor Mendel

    Gregor Mendel
    father of modern genetics
  • Clara Barton

    Clara Barton
    organized the American Red Cross
  • Robert Koch

    Robert Koch
    famous for isolating tuberculosis
  • Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich
    was noted for curing siphilis
  • Joseph Lister

    Joseph Lister
    introduced carbolic acid to sterilize instruments and wounds in surgery
  • Aristotle

    Aristotle
    first person to classify animals
  • Sir Alexander Fleming

    Sir Alexander Fleming
    created penicillin
  • Dr.Charles Drews

    Dr.Charles Drews
    was first to create large-scaled blood banks
  • Raymond Dart

    Raymond Dart
    one of the first to provide hard evidence that humans first evolved in Africa
  • Erwin Chargaff

    Erwin Chargaff
    determined G=C, T=A
  • James watson and Francis Crick

    James watson and Francis Crick
    Discovery of DNA structure
  • Jonas Salk

    Jonas Salk
    made the first safe polio vaccine
  • Albert Sabin

    Albert Sabin
    helped jonas salk to make the first safe polio vaccine