Scientists of Medicine

Medical scientists

“ Science is organized knowledge.”

Hippocrates – «The father of medicine» 460 B.C

• He observed diseases such a pneumonia, tuberculosis and malaria and added to the medical language such words as chronic, crisis, relapse and convalescence. Hippocrates used herbs for treatment

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

• Produced and detected  electromagnetic radiation  in a  wavelength  range known as  X-rays  or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first  Nobel Prize in Physics  in 1901. In honour of his accomplishments, in 2004 the  International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry  named  element  111,  roentgenium , a radioactive element with multiple unstable isotopes, after him.

Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov

• was a  Russian   ophthalmologist ,  politician , professor,  full member  of the  Russian Academy of Sciences  and  Russian Academy of Medical Sciences . He is considered to be a pioneer of  refractive surgery .

Joseph Lister (1827 – 1912).

• An English surgeon.
• He was the founder of antiseptic surgery.
• He was the first to discover the reasons for infection and the way to prevent it.
• The best monument to Joseph Lister is the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in London.

Alexander Fleming ( 1881 – 1955).

• He discovered a liquid mould culture, which he named penicillin. It prevented growth of staphylococci.
• He is known as the “father of antibiotics”.

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