Medical Inventions and Discoveries
Banting – Insulin (a cure for diabetes)
Bernard Christian – Replacing the human heart
Brahmchari, U.M. – Cure of kala-azar fever
Domagk – Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine, the first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil, for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Fleming Alexander – Penicillin (in 1929)
Harvey – Circulation of blood
Hahnemann – Founder of Homeopathy. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.
Hopkins F. G. – Vitamin D
Jenner – Smallpox Vaccination
Koch Robert – Tubercle Bacillus
Laennec – Stethoscope
Lister, Lord – Antiseptic surgery
Pasteur Louis – Treatment of rabies, cure of hydrophobia
Ronald Ross – Malaria parasite
Salk Jonas E. – Anti-polio Vaccine
Simpson and Harrison – Chloroform
Waksman - Streptomycin