It's hard to throw away history.It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself-Jerry Han
NURSING
Margaret Sanger
Pioneered use of hormonal contraceptives in women.Started planned parenthood movement
Clara Barton
Founded American Red Cross.She worked as a nurse during the Civil War, attending to soldiers involved in many violent battles.
Virginia Henderson
Developed a notable definition of nursing and the need theory.Also known as modern Nightingale
Florence Nightingale
Founder of modern nursing.Also known as the lady with the lamp.Worked as a nurse in the Creamean War
PSYCHOLOGY
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis.On this basis Freud elaborated his theory of the unconscious and went on to develop a model of psychic structure comprising id, ego and super-ego
Eric Ericson
German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on psychological development of human beings
HIV/AIDS
Dr Robert Gallo
Discovered HIV to be the cause of AIDS
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Discovered HIV Virus with Luc Montagnier at Pasteur Institute,France
Luc Montagnier
Discovered HIV Virus with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi at Pasteur Institute,France
MALARIA
Giovanni Batista Grassi
He was the first to describe and establish the life cycle of the human malarial parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, and discovered that only female anopheline mosquitoes are capable of transmitting the disease.
Ronald Ross
His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease
Charles Alphonce Laveran
Discovered parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis
Tu You You
Developed Artemisinin from Chinese herb Qinhaosu leading to development of a novel therapy for malaria-Artemether Lumefantrine(AL)
Polio
Jonas Salk
Developed the first Polio Vaccine in 1953, inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), a "dead" vaccine given by injection
Alfred sabin
Developed Oral Polio Vaccine(OPV) in 1955
Anesthesia
William Morton
Pioneered use of the early anesthetic ether for tooth extraction
James Young Simpson
He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform on humans
Sir Robert Reynolds Macintosh
Perfected intubation and introduced the curved laryngoscope
Infection/Asepsis
Louis Pasteur
"father of microbiology". He discovered the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization,thereby developing vaccines for rabies and anthrax
Robert Koch
"father of microbiology".Founded the Germ theory of disease and kochs postulates
Cancer
Tasuku Honjo
Pioneered immunotherapy
James P. Allison
Pioneered immunotherapy
Gertrude B. Elion
Pioneered innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs thereby developing the immunosuppressive drug Azathioprine and the anti viral drug Acyclovir
George H. Hitchings
Pioneered innovative methods of rational drug design for the development of new drugs thereby developing the immunosuppressive drug Azathioprine and the anti viral drug Acyclovir
Marie Curie
Coined the term radioactivity and pioneered the use of radiation therapy in cancer diagnosis and treatment during world war II
Diabetes
Fredrick G Banting
Discovered Insulin through disecting the pancreas of dogs
John Macleod
Gave the lab for Insulin Research and helped in tabulating the results scientifically
Charles Best
Discovered Insulin through disecting the pancreas of dogs
James Collip
Biochemist who helped purify the islet langerhan extracts into pure insulin
Round Worms
William C Campbell
He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis
Satoshi Omura
He is known for the discovery and development of various pharmaceuticals originally occurring in microorganisms(From his sample of Streptomyces avermitilis bacteria, Ivermectin was made)
Immunology
Emil Von Berling
German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the first one awarded in that field, for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin using serum. He was widely known as a "saviour of children," as diphtheria used to be a major cause of child death.
Paul Ehrlich
Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.
Jules Bordet
In 1895 Bordet made his discovery that the bacteriolytic effect of acquired specific antibody is significantly enhanced in vivo by the presence of innate serum components which he termed alexine (but which are now known as complement)
Medical Imaging
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
Built the first CT Scanner in 1971,taking Cormack's theoretical calculations into a real application
Allan MacLeod Cormack
Although he was mainly working on particle physics, Cormack's side interest in x-ray technology led him to develop the theoretical underpinnings of CT scanning
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Discovered X-rays in 1895
Paul C. Lauterbur
Developed MRI technology for medical use
Peter Mansfield
Mansfield is credited with inventing 'slice selection' for MRI thereby improving imaging time
