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Observed that delivering mothers would come down with "child bed fever." Hypothesized that infected surgeon hands were infecting mothers. |
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Semmelweis |
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Observed that patients would get infected after surgery. Decided to sterilize tools with carbolic acid before surgery. |
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Lister |
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First to vaccinate against small pox. Observed that people that contracted cow pox, didn't get small pox. |
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Jenner |
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First to create anti-toxin & anti-serum against microorganism. |
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von Behring & Kitasato |
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Observed that white blood cells underwent Phagocytosis when added to disease. |
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Metchnikoff |
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First to make a chemotherapeutic agent. Worked with syphillis. Found that the chemical Salvorsan compound killed the disease. |
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Ehrlich |
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First to discover antibiotic penicillin. Wasn't used until WWII. Culture grown in bed pans. |
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Fleming |
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Creator of the classification of genus & species. |
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Carl von Linne |
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Nomenclature |
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How something is named. |
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Taxonomy |
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Grouping like organisms together. |
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Divided living things into Plants & Animals. |
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Aristotle |
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Organic molecule. |
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Contains Carbon & Hydrogen. |
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Divided living things into 5 Kingdoms. |
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Whittaker |
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Define Key. |
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Series of questions asked so that an untrained observer can easily answer questions. |
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