| 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 |
