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Peters - Med Pio

Medical Pioneers

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Who was Frederic Banting? Developer of insulin
Who was Marie Currie? Discover of radium
How is Hippocrates remembered today in the medical world? Father of Medicine - Hippocratic Oath
Who was Wm. T. G. Morton? Dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as an anesthetic
A. B. Sabin is remembered for Developing the oral polio vaccine
Clara Barton is remembered as the Founder of the American Red Cross
Who was Gerhard Domagk? Famous for his use of antibiotics
Edward Jenner discovered that using cow smallpox vaccine was effective as an immunization
Florence Nightingale Trained nurses and established a nursing school
Who was Jonas Salk? Invented polio vaccine
Why is Elizabeth Blackwell remembered today? She's remembered as the first female doctor in the United States
Sir Alexander Fleming's invention could have saved my grandfather His invention of penicillin came in the 1940s
William Kolff was not a doctor, so why is he on the list? As a biomedical engineer, he invented the first dialysis machine
George Papanicolaou is known for The Pap Smear
Why is Ake Senning remembered today? For his work in heart surgeries - usage of pacemakers and artificial valves
Alexis Carrel is remembered for his work in organ transplants
Who was Rene Laennec? Inventor of the stethoscope
Norm Shumway worked in California. Why is he on the list? He worked at Stanford University and performed the first heart transplant in the United States.
Why is there a military hospital named after Walter Reed? While a military physician, he tied the link of yellow fever to mosquitos
Mary Breckenridge is known for introducing midwifery in the US and founding the Frontier Nursing Service
Joseph Lister is famous for introducing infection control principles
Who was Louis Pasteur? Introduced pasteurization - using heat to kill germs
William von Roentgen was also not a medical doctor. He was known for developing x-rays
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