Inventions and Innovations in the Field of Medical Laboratory

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Gregor Mendel

Enunciated his law of inherited characteristics from studies on plants (1866)

Joseph Lister

Demonstrated that surgical infections are caused by airborne organisms (1870)

Robert Koch

Presented the first pictures of bacili (anthrax), and later tubercle bacili (1877)

Elie Metchnikoff

Described phagocytes in blood and their role in fighting infection (1886)

Ernst von Bergmann

Introduced steam sterilization in surgery (1886)

Karl Landsteiner

Distinguished blood groups through the development of the ABO blood group system (1902)

August von Wassermann

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis (1906)

Howard Ricketts

Discovered microorganisms whose range lies between bacteria and viruses called rickettsiae (1906)

Hans Fischer

Worked out the structure of hemoglobin (1929)

Jonas Salk

Developed poliomyelitis vaccine (1954)

James Westgard

Introduced the Westgard Rules of quality control in the clinical laboratory (1973)

Baruch Samuel Blumberg

Introduced the Hepatitis B Vaccine (1980)

Kary Mullis

Developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction (1985)

Andre van Steirtgeghem

Introduced the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (IVF) (1992)

James Thomson

Derived the first human Stem Cell line (1998)

Edward Jenner

Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to small pox; Impact of contribution: Immunology (1796)

Agostino Bassi

Produced diseases in worms by injection of organic material; the beginning of bacteriology (1835)

Antoine van Leeuwenhoek

The father of microbiology; known for his work on the improvement of the microscope (1660)

Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Identified organs by their types of tissues; Impact of contribution: Histology (1880)

Louis Pasteur

Successfully produced immunity to rabies (1857)