Fact Book
12219. Discovery
Bacteria
Discoverer/Inventor : leeuwenhock (netherlands)
Year : 1683
12220. Discovery
Bacteriology
Discoverer/Inventor : ferdinand cohn (germany)
Year : 1872
12221. Discovery
Biochemistry
Discoverer/Inventor : jan baptista van helmont (belgium)
Year : 1648
12222. Discovery
Blood Plasma Storage (Blood Bank)
Discoverer/Inventor : drew (u.s.a)
Year : 1940
12223. Discovery
Blood Transfusion
Discoverer/Inventor : jean-baptiste denys (france)
Year : 1625
12224. Discovery
Cardiac Pacemaker
Discoverer/Inventor : a.s hyman (u.s.a)
Year : 1932
12225. Discovery
Cat Scanner
Discoverer/Inventor : godfrey hounsfield (britain)
Year : 1968
12226. Discovery
Chemotherapy
Discoverer/Inventor : paracelsus (switzerland)
Year : 1493-1541
12227. Discovery
Chloroform As Anaesthetic
Discoverer/Inventor : james simpson (britain)
Year : 1847
12228. Discovery
Chloromycetin
Discoverer/Inventor : burkholder (u.s.a)
Year : 1947
12229. Discovery
Cholera T.B Germs
Discoverer/Inventor : robert koch (germany)
Year : 1877
12230. Discovery
Circulation Of Blood
Discoverer/Inventor : william harvey (britain)
Year : 1628
12231. Discovery
Cryo-Surgery
Discoverer/Inventor : henry swan (u.s.a)
Year : 1953
12232. Discovery
Diphtheria Germs
Discoverer/Inventor : klebs and loffler (germany)
Year : 1883-84
12233. Discovery
Electro-Cardiograph
Discoverer/Inventor : willem einthoven (netherlands)
Year : 1903
12234. Discovery
Electro-Encephalogram
Discoverer/Inventor : hand berger (germany)
Year : 1929
12235. Discovery
Embryology
Discoverer/Inventor : kari ernest van baer (estonia)
Year : 1792-1896
12236. Discovery
Endocrinology
Discoverer/Inventor : bayliss and starling (britain)
Year : 1902
12237. Discovery
First Test Tube Baby
Discoverer/Inventor : steptoe and edwards (britain)
Year : 1978
12238. Discovery
Gene Therapy On Humans
Discoverer/Inventor : martin clive (u.s.a)
Year : 1980
12239. Discovery
Genes Associated With Cancer
Discoverer/Inventor : robert weinberg and others (u.s.a)
Year : 1982
12240. Discovery
Heart Transplant Surgery
Discoverer/Inventor : christian barnard (s. africa)
Year : 1967
12241. Discovery
Histology
Discoverer/Inventor : marie bichat (france)
Year : 1771-1802
12242. Discovery
Hypodermic Syringe
Discoverer/Inventor : alexander wood (britain)
Year : 1853
12243. Discovery
Kidney Machine
Discoverer/Inventor : kolf (netherlands)
Year : 1944
12244. Discovery
Leprosy Bacillus
Discoverer/Inventor : hansen (norway)
Year : 1873
12245. Discovery
Lsd (Lysergic Acid Diethylamide)
Discoverer/Inventor : hoffman (switzerland)
Year : 1943
12246. Discovery
Malaria Germs
Discoverer/Inventor : laveran (france)
Year : 1880
12247. Discovery
Morphine
Discoverer/Inventor : friderich sertumer (germany)
Year : 1805
12248. Discovery
Neurology
Discoverer/Inventor : franz joseph gall (germany)
Year : 1758-1828
12249. Discovery
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Discoverer/Inventor : raymond damadian (u.s.a)
Year : 1971
12250. Discovery
Open Heart Surgery
Discoverer/Inventor : walton lillehel (u.s.a)
Year : 1953
12251. Discovery
Oral Contraceptive Pills
Discoverer/Inventor : gregory pincus, rock (u.s.a)
Year : 1955
12252. Discovery
Penicillin
Discoverer/Inventor : alexander fleming (britain)
Year : 1928
12253. Discovery
Physiology
Discoverer/Inventor : albrecht von haller (switzerland)
Year : 1757-66
12254. Discovery
Positron Emission Tomography
Discoverer/Inventor : louis sokoloff (u.s.a)
Year : 1978
12255. Discovery
Rabies Vaccine
Discoverer/Inventor : louis pasteur (france)
Year : 1860
12256. Discovery
Recombinant-Dna Technology
Discoverer/Inventor : paul berg, h.w. boyer,s cohen (u.s.a)
Year : 1972-73
12258. Discovery
Rh-Factor
Discoverer/Inventor : karl landsteiner (u.s.a)
Year : 1940
12259. Discovery
Serology
Discoverer/Inventor : paul ehrlich (germany)
Year : 1884-1915
12260. Discovery
Small Pox Eradicated
Discoverer/Inventor : w.h.o declaration (un)
Year : 1980
12261. Discovery
Stethoscope
Discoverer/Inventor : rene laennec (france)
Year : 1819
12262. Discovery
Streptomycin
Discoverer/Inventor : selman waksmann (u.s.a)
Year : 1944
12263. Discovery
Synthetic Antigens
Discoverer/Inventor : landsteiner (u.s.a)
Year : 1917
12264. Discovery
Terramycin
Discoverer/Inventor : finlay and others (u.s.a)
Year : 1950
12265. Discovery
Thyroxin
Discoverer/Inventor : edward calvin-kendall (u.s.a)
Year : 1919
12266. Discovery
Typhus Vaccine
Discoverer/Inventor : j. nicolle (france)
Year : 1909
12267. Discovery
Vaccination
Discoverer/Inventor : edward jenner (britain)
Year : 1796
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The poet Shelley drowned off the coast of Italy in 1822. His body was washed up, half eaten by fish, and cremated on the beach by his friends. One of them cut his heart from the burnt body and gave it to Shelley's wife who kept it all her life.
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