(NAMES)TOPIC I: HISTORY OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE/MEDICAL

1660 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

The father of microbiology; known for his work on the improvement of

the microscope

1796 - Edward Jenner

Discovered vaccination to establish immunity to smallpox; Impact

of contribution: Immunology

1880 - Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

Identified organs by their types of tissues;

Impact of contribution: 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 characteristic 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 (anthrax), 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 Wassermann

Developed immunologic tests for syphilis

1929 - Hans Fischer

Worked out the structure of hemoglobin

1954 - Jonas Salk

Developed the 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