Who was Jonas Salk and what was his contribution to medicine?
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He invented the vaccination for polio.
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The Father of Modern Medicine: Hippocrates\nHis Life\nHippocrates lived between 430 and 370 B.C. He was born on the island of Cos, Greece. He had been taught medicine by his father Heracleides as well as by the most famous teachers of that time.\n\nHippocrates made his career as a house-to-house physician, the so called periodeut. He had founded the Coyan Medical School that later on competed with the Knidean Medical School. For a long time he practiced in Thrace and died in old age in Larissa in Thessalia.That is about all we know of his life. \n\n\n\nThe Hippocratic Oath\nI swear by Apollo the physician and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation. \nTo reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others.\n\nI will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgement, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. \n\nWith purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not cut persons labouring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. \n\nWhatever, in connection with my professional service, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. \n\nWhile I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot. \n\n\n\nHis Work\nHippocrates wrote some seventy books which as widely known as the Hippocratic Corpus. During his era medicine became a science and the profession had to be underpinned with logic and theory. The human body was thought to consist of four humours - yellow bile, blood, phlegm, and black bile. They were characterised by the same properties - dry, hot, wet and cold as the four elements - fire, air, water, and earth. \n\nOne generalised -and of course incorrecrt- theory was that disease was due to an imbalance of the fluid portions of the body. Hippocrates studied physiology, anatomy and evident, immediate and obscure causes of disease.
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Cor·rens (kôr'əns), Karl Erich 1864–1933.\n\nGerman botanist and geneticist whose research led to the rediscovery (1900) of Mendel's law of inheritance.
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Yes.  He was a Russian chemist born in Siberia.
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I beleive this is the one:\n\nhttp://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~braslavs/Biophysics/Articles/Wei%20Zhang/Rosensweig2002.pdf
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The field of Medicine.
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The Cell Theory proposed by Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden, the Theory of Evolution (the human's structure/posture came from the apes) and Theory of Natural Selection (dominant species would survive while indominant species would die) by Charles Darwin, Germ Theory of Disease by anonymous(germs are main causes of diseases), Miasma Theory of Cholera by John Snow ( he plotted the source of the contagion to the Broad Street pump), Dyscrasia Theory by anonymous (germs come from the 'four humours' in the body)
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Karl von Frisch was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1973 to honour his work on animal behavior, especially his theory that honey bees communicate by a dance language. This theory was presented first by von Frisch in the 1940's and within a few years it became quite popular as it suggested symbolic communication in a non-human species.
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it was leeuwenhoek.e also observed blood cells,sperm cells etc.That is why he is called the father of microscopy.
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There are several good articles relating to this genius. One such article can be found at \nwww.rense.com/health/rife.htm
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Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947) was one of the most important German physicists of the late 19th and early 20th century; he is considered to be the inventor of quantum theory.
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Louis Pasteur . He \n\ndiscovered that the purpose of cell division was reproduction. Also learned that living cells are dynamic. They use and produce energy and materials. Fermentative ability of microorganisms demonstrated between 1857 and 1876 by Pasteur - the father of biotechnology.
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How about Madame Curie...would that be helpful? I was going to suggest Charles Darwin, but noticed someone already answered...
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Dr. Vivien Thomas, he pioneered open heart surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was responsible for performing the first open heart surgery.
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hey there is a whole big article that i cannot post you can get thru tis link\nhttp://nobelprize.org/chemistry/articles/malmstrom/index.html
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1.Alexander Fleming : micro-organisms/microbes\n\nhis discovery of penicillin\n\n2.Carl Linné: taxonomy\n \nGood classification of plants and their species/discovered new species\n\n\n3.Charles Darwin : human origins\n\ntheory of evolution\n\n4. Santiago Ramón y Cajal : neurobiology\n\nanalyzed almost the whole human nervous system\n\n5. Gregor Mendel : genetics\n\ntheories of heredity