Biomed vocab scientists

Oswald T Avery

Genetic material is DNA

Julius Axelrod

Nerve message transmission

Fredrick Banting, Charles Best

Discovered Insulin, mechanisms of diabetes

Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

Discovered growth factors

Charles Darwin

Theory of evolution

Peter Dohery, Rolf Zinkernagel

cell mediated immunity

Gertrude Elion, George Hitchings

Drugs to treat leukemia and organ transplants

Alexander Fleming

Discovered penicillin

Sigmund Freud

Founded modern psycholgy

William Harvey

Proved blood circulated through the body

Robert Koch

Established the germ theory of diseases

George Kohler & Cesar Milstein

Developed Monoclonal antibody technology

Karl Landsteiner

Developed modern classifications of blood types

Anton Van Leewenheok

Invented Microscope

Barbara McClintock

Discovered the ability of genes to change position

Sir Peter Medawar

Discovered acquired immunity

Gregor Mendel

Founded modern Genetics

Kary Mullis

Devised the polymerase chain reaction, used in DNA

Louis Pasteur

Discoveries in microbiology

Linus Pauling

Conducted research into the nature of the chemical bond

Martin Rodbell

Discovered the signal of transduction in communication among cells

Wilhelm Rontgen

X-rays

Peyton Rous

Showed that tumors can be caused by viruses

Watson, Crick, Franklin

Discovered the structure of DNA

Rosalyn Yalow

Developed radioimmunoassay

J. Michael Bishop & Harold Varmus

Oncogenes (genes can cause cancer)

Ellie Metchnikoff

Discovered phagocytes (white blood cells that invading bacteria

Leftkoitz, Robert JJ

Receptors have similar structures

Karl popper

Falsification thoery

Percy, Lavon Julian

a drug used to treat glaucoma