DD history

James Lind

Created an experiment to prove that scurvy was caused by vitamin C deficiency (1740s)

Louis Pasteur

Milk pasteurization. Anthrax vaccine:, FATHER OF GERM THEORY, Disproved spontaneous generation

Edward Jenner

father of immunology. Developed the first smallpox vaccine (May 1796)

John Graunt

founder of demographics, first epidemiologist

Florence Nightingale

founder of modern nursing. Came to prominence while serving as a manager & trainer of nurses during Crimean War

Joseph Lister

British surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery

Jonas Salk

first effective vaccine against polio

Alexander Flemming: penicillin vaccine (first antibiotic).

John Snow

Father of Epidemology

Mary Mallon

asymptomatic carrier of typhoid

Edward Sydenstricker

public health statistician

Katalin Kariko

mRNA vaccine development (nobel prize 2023)