IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN SCIENCE N MED

aristotle

• greek philosopher

• father of philosophy

• 4 elements of life (water, air, fire, earth)

hippocrates

• greek physician and philosopher

• father of human medicine

• 4 humors in the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile)

Publius (Flavius) Vegetius Renatus

father of Veterinary Medicine

Charles Darwin

• british biologist

• father of evolution

Carolus von Linnaeus

father of taxonomy (1758)

Johann Gregor Mendel

Father of Genetics/Inheritance

Galen/Galenus of Pergamon

Father of Human Anatomy

Andreas Vesallius

Father of Comparative Anatomy

Karl Ernst von Baer

Father of Developmental Anatomy/Embryology

Louis Pasteur

Father of foundations of Microbiology

Robert Koch

• German Physician

• Father of Modern Microbiology (Modern Bacteriology)

Rudolf Leuckart

Father of Modern Parasitology

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Father of Protozoology

• used microscope to observe biological specimen such as RBCs, WBCs, bacteria, protozoa, and spermatozoa

William Harvey

• English physician

• Father of Physiology

• discovered blood circulation (1628)

Rudolf Virchow

Father of Modern Pathology

Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim

• “Paracelsus”

• Swiss physician and alchemist

• Great grandfather of Pharmacology

• “every drug can be a poison”

Robert Hooke

• English physicist

• cell discovery, 1665

Matthias Schleiden

• Botanist

• cell theory of life

Theodor Schwann

• Zoologist

• cell theory of life

Watson and Crick

DNA double helical strand, 1953

Paul Ehrlich

Antibiotic Salvarsan (1910)

Alexander Fleming

Penicillin, 1928

Selman Abraham Waksman

Antibiotic Streptomycin

Hans and Zacharias Janssen

• First microscope

• spectacle makers

• father and son