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Important Discoveries
Discovery | Year | Person | Country |
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Circulation of blood | 1628 | William Harvey (Father of Physiology) | Britain |
Biochemistry | 1648 | Jan Baptista Van Helmont | Belgium |
Bacteria | 1683 | Leeuwenhock | Netherlands |
Physiology | 1757-1766 | Albrecht Von Haller | Switzerland |
Vaccination | 1796 | Edward Jenner (Father of Immunigation) | Britain |
Stethoscope | 1819 | Rene Laennec | France |
Morphine | 1805 | Friderich Sertumer | Germany |
Chloroform as anasethetic | 1847 | James Simpson | Britain |
Hypodermic Syringe | 1853 | Alexander Wood | Britain |
Rabies Vaccine | 1860 | Louis Pasteur | France |
Bacteriology | 1872 | Ferdinand Cohn | Germany |
Cholera, T. B. germs | 1877 | Robert Koch (Father of Medicine) | Germany |
Malaria germs | 1880 | Laveran | France |
Aspirin | 1889 | Dreser | Germany |
Virology | 1892 | Ivanovski & Bejerinck | Russia, Netherlands |
Psycho-(Dream) analysis | 1895 | Sigmund Freud | Austria |
Anti-toxin (science of immunity) | 1890 | Behring & Kitasato | Germany, Japan |
Electro-cardiograph | 1903 | Willam Einthoven | Netherlands |
Typhus Vaccine | 1909 | J. Nicolle | France |
Sex Hormones | 1910 | Eugen Steinach | Austria |
Vitamins | 1912 | Sir F.G. Hopkins | Britain |
Synthetic antigens | 1917 | Landsteiner | USA |
Insulin for Diabetes | 1921 | Banting & Best | Canada |
Peniciliin | 1928 | Alexander Fleming | Britain |
Electro-encephalogram | 1929 | Hans Berger | Germany |
Cardiac Pacemaker | 1932 | A.D.S. Hyman | USA |
D.D.T. (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) | 1939 | Paul Muller | Germany |
Rh-factor | 1940 | Karl Landsteiner | USA |
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) | 1943 | Hoffman | Switzerland |
Streptomycin | 1944 | Selman Waksmann | USA |
Kidney Machine | 1944 | Kolf | Netherlands |
Chloromycetin | 1947 | Burkholder | USA |
Aureomycin | 1948 | Duggar | USA |
Reserpine | 1949 | Jal Vakil | India |
Terramycin | 1950 | Finlay & Others | USA |
Cryo-Surgery | 1953 | Henry Swan | USA |
Open Heart Surgery | 1953 | Walton Lillehel | USA |
Poliomyelitis Vaccine | 1954 | Jonas Salk and Sabin | USA |
Oral Contraceptive Pills | 1955 | Gregory Pincus | USA |
Artificial Heart | 1957 | Willam Kolff | Netherlands |
Use of artificial heart (for Surgery) | 1963 | Michael de Bakey | USA |
Heart Transplant Surgery | 1967 | Christian Barnard | S. Africa |
CAT Scanner | 1968 | Godfrey Hounsfield | Britain |
First Test Tube Baby | 1978 | Steptoe & Edwards | Britain |
Small Pox eradicated | 1980 | W.H.O. Declaration | USA |
Genes associated with Cancer (Oncogenes) | 1982 | Robert Weinberg & others | USA |
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