Important Invention And Discovery In Biology

Name of inventions/discoveries	Discoverers & Inventors
Systemic circulation of blood	William Harvey
Observation of microorganisms	Antony van Leeuwenhoek
Sex hormones	Eugen Stainak
Simple microscope	Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Stethoscope	René Laennec
First test tube baby	Robert Edward and Patrick Steptoe
Vaccination	Edward Jenner
Vitamin	Casimir Funk
CT scan	Godfrey Hounsfield & Allan Cormack
DNA	Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
DNA Structure	James Watson and Francis Crick
DNA Fingerprinting	Alec Jeffreys
Electrocardiogram (ECG)	Willem Einthoven
5 kingdom classification	R. H. Whittaker
Genetic code	Marshall Nirenberg and Heinrich J. Matthaei
Genetic drift	Sewall Wright
Father of heart transplantation	Norman Shumway
Heart transplantation first performed	Christiaan Barnard
Hormone	William Bayliss
Insulin	Frederick Banting and Charles H. Best
Malaria Parasite	Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)	Damadian
Open heart surgery	Dr. Daniel Hale Williams. And Dr. Daniel Williams
Penicillin	Alexander Fleming
Polio vaccine	Jonas Salk and a team
Rh factor in human blood	Dr. Alexander S. Wiener and Karl Landsteiner
Cancer	Hippocrates
Blood group (ABO group)	Karl Landsteiner
Binomial nomenclature	Carl Linnaeus
Bacteria (& protozoa)	Van Leeuwenhoek
Aspirin	Felix Hoffmann at Bayer in Germany
Jarvik-7 (first artificial heart)	Willem Johan Kolff and Robert Jarvik
Anthrax vaccine	Pasteur
Amoeba	August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof
Oxygen in respiration and photosynthesis	Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and Jan Ingenhousz
Animal electricity	Luigi Galvani
Cell	Robert Hooke
Cell Theory	Schleiden and Schwann
Chromosomes	Hofmeister
Chioroplast	Schimper
Mitochondria	Kolliker
Nucleus	Robert Brown
Nucleoplasm	Strasburger
Enzyme	Anselme Payen
Mitosis	Walther Flemming
Meiosis	Oscar Hertwig
Mutations	Thomas Hunt Morgan and Lilian Vaughan Morgan
Virus	Dmitri Ivanovsky & Martinus Beijerinck