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BROCA, PIERRE PAUL (1824-1880)
Pierre Paul Broca was a French surgeon and anthropologist who became one of the foremost surgeons of his time. He specialized in brain surgery and was the first person to trepan (cut through the sku... |  |
 | BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1820)
Robert Brown, the Scottish Botanist is remembered particularly for his discovery of the nucleus, within cells of plant tissues. He also observed the irregular motion of particles suspended in water,... |
CRICK, FRANCIS
Francis Crick, British molecular biologist and geneticist, was a pioneer in the study of biological macromolecules and along with Maurice. F. Wilkins and James D.Watson discovered the double-helical ... |  |
 | DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
Charles Robert Darwin, was an English naturalist, whose theory of Evolution of Species by Natural Selection has remained one of the classics of scientific thought till this day. In its time however, ... |
EHRLICH PAUL (1854-1915)
Paul Ehrlich, German bacteriologist, greatly advanced the science and practice of medicine by applying the principles of organic chemistry to the problems of disease. He was instrumental in establish... |  |
 | FLEMING, SIR ALEXANDER (1881-1955)
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish Bacteriologist whose discovery of Penicillin revolutionized medical science. Penicillin proved to be of immense value in the treatment of bacterial infections. It... |
FREUD, SIGMUND (1856 –1939 )
Sigmund Freud, noted Austrian psychiatrist, earned fame by establishing Psycho analysis as an important adjunct in psychiatric treatment. He also studied the significance of dreams in a book entitle... |  |
 | GALEN (130 AD- 200AD)
Claudios Galenos, Greek physician, better known as Galen of Pergamum (now in Bergama, Turkey), was one of the most distinguished physicians of ancient times, possibly next only to Hippocrates. To Gal... |
GALVANI LUIGI (1737-98)
Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and anatomist, spent a great deal of his life studying animal electricity and made some startling discoveries. He also conducted experiments with electric charges. Hi... |  |
 | HALDANE, JOHN BURDON SANDERSON (1892-1964)
J.B.S Haldane, British biologist and geneticist, became well known for his mathematical analysis of genetic phenomena and their relation to evolution. He is especially famous for his work on populati... |
HIPPOCRATES (460 BC – 370 BC)
Hippocrates, ancient Greek philosopher and physician, is often referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’. He was the first Greek scholar to advance a rational theory on human physiology and the first t... |  |
 | WATSON, JAMES DEWEY (1928 - )
James Dewey Watson, American biologist, made a monumental contribution to biological sciences with his joint discovery of the double-helical structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid molecules (DNA) alo... |
JENNER, EDWARD (1749 -1823)
Edward Jenner, English physician of the nineteenth century, has carved a place for himself in medical history with his discovery of the small pox vaccine. In those days, small pox was a dreaded disea... |  |
 | JUNG, CARL (1875-1961)
Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, was the founder of analytical psychology, which made use of word association, forcing patients to make quick responses that tapped their unconscious mind. Like Freud, ... |
KREBS, HANS (1900-1981)
Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German British biochemist, did pioneering work on the chemical processes involved in metabolism and devised a unique tissue-slice technique for preserving organ parts for bio-ch... |  |
 | LEAKEY, LOUIS SEYMOUR (1903 – 1972)
Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, British anthropologist and archeologist, made major contributions to the study of prehistoric man, by discovering important hominid fossils (those of early humans and the... |
LEEUWENHOEK, ANTON VAN (1632 -1723 )
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist and microscopist, was unquestionably one of the outstanding scientists of all time. Gifted with a rare talent for observation and curiosity, Leeuwenhoek disco... |  |
 | LINNAEUS, CAROLUS (1707-1778)
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and physician, left a far reaching impact on natural history, by becoming the first person to prepare an exhaustive classification of the plant and animal kingdoms.... |
MENDEL, GREGOR JOHANN
Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian botanist and monk of the Augustinian Order, became famous posthumously for his work on the Laws of Inheritance. Mendel’s experiments followed a line of thought already ... |  |
 | MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT (1866 – 1945)
Thomas Hunt Morgan, American zoologist and geneticist, proved the validity of the chromosome theory of heredity and provided the physical basis for Mendel’s theory that genes are the units of heredit... |
PASTEUR, LOUIS (1822 – 1895)
Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, is recognised as one of the greatest scientists in history. Although he was trained in chemistry, it was in biological and medical research that he m... |  |
 | PAVLOV, IVAN PETROVITCH (1849-1936)
Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov, Russian physiologist, is famous for his theory of conditioned reflex, which was a culmination of a series of famous experiments, designed to establish the physiological nature... |
KOCH, ROBERT (1843 – 1910)
Robert (Heinrich Hermann) Koch, German physician and bacteriologist, along with Louis Pasteur, was one of the founders of the science of bacteriology. He postulated systematic techniques for isolat... |  |
 | SANGER, FREDERICK (1918)
Frederick Sanger, English biochemist, had the rare distinction of being honoured with the Nobel Prize for chemistry twice. The first time was in 1958 when he won it for discovering the chemical struc... |
VESALIUS ANDREAS (1514 - 1564)
Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, is considered to be the founder of modern anatomy. His major work, De Humani Corporis Fabrica is probably the first accurate book on human anatomy and constitutes... |  |
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