Pioneers In Medicine And Physiology Codexery

A source-cited reference to pioneers in medicine and physiology

Pioneers In Medicine And Physiology (17)

• Luc Montagnier — French virologist who co-discovered HIV and won the Nobel Prize.
• Marguerite Davis — Their research, conducted at the University of Wisconsin, identified essential trace chemicals in foods and greatly…
• Mathieu Orfila — Spanish-born French toxicologist, father of modern toxicology.
• Maud Menten — Canadian physician and chemist who advanced enzyme kinetics.
• Maurice Hilleman — Developed over 40 vaccines; developed eight of the 14 vaccines routinely recommended in American schedules.
• Max Theiler — Developed the yellow fever vaccine; first African-born Nobel laureate.
• Michael DeBakey — Cardiovascular surgeon and chair of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
• Nettie Stevens — American geneticist who discovered the XY sex-determination system through studies of mealworms.
• Otto Heinrich Warburg — Nobel laureate who discovered the respiratory enzyme and studied cancer metabolism.
• Paul Ehrlich — German physician and scientist who worked in hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy.
• Peter Medawar — Biologist who discovered acquired immunological tolerance, enabling organ transplants.
• Peter Piot — Microbiologist who co-discovered Ebola and led AIDS research.
• René Laennec — French physician who invented the stethoscope in 1816.
• Rita Levi-Montalcini — Italian neurobiologist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize for discovering nerve growth factor.
• Robert Gallo — American biomedical researcher who helped prove HIV causes AIDS and developed the HIV blood test.
• Rudolf Virchow — German physician, pathologist, and founder of social medicine.
• Selman Waksman — Soil microbiologist whose lab found streptomycin, the first effective drug against tuberculosis.

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