lesson 1 - inventions and innovations

• 1660 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the father of microbiology; known for his work on the improvement of the microscope
• 1796 - Edward Jenner: He discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; Impact of distribution: Immunology
• 1880 - Marie Francois Xavier Bichat: Identified organs by their types of tissues; Impact of distribution: Histology
• 1835 - Agostino Bassi: Produced disease in worms by injection of organic material; the beginning of bacteriology
• 1857 - Louis Pasteur: Successfully produced immunity to rabies
• 1866 - Gregor Mendel: Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants
• 1870 - Joseph Lister: Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms
• 1877 - Robert Koch: Presented the first pictures of bacilli (arthrax), and later tubercle bacilli
• 1886 - Elie Metchnikoff: Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection
• 1886 - Ernst von Bergmann: Introduced steam sterilization in surgery
• 1902 - Karl Landsteiner: Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system
• 1906 - August von Wasserman: Developed immunologic tests for syphilis
• 1906 - Howard Ricketts: Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae
• 1929 - Hans Fischer: Worked out the structure of hemoglobin
• 1954 - Jonas Salk: Developed poliomyelitis vaccine
• 1973 - James Westgard: Introduced the Westgard Rules for quality control in the clinical laboratory
• 1980 - Baruch Samuel Blumberg: Introduced the hepatitis B vaccine
• 1985 - Kary Mullis: Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
• 1992 - Andre van Steirteghem: Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF)
• 1998 - James Thomson: Derived the first human Stem Cell line