 Karl Landsteiner |
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He made transfusion a safe option by identifying and characterizing of the human blood groups, A, B, and O.
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| Anton van Leeuwenhoek |
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He discovered bacteria, protozoa, spermatozoa, rotifers, Hydra, and Volvox
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| Richard Lewisohn |
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A surgeon, he introduced the modern technique of blood transfusion.
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| Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis |
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He was the founder of the "numerical method" in medicine, better known as medical statistics.
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| Richard Lower |
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He was considered the best seventeenth-century English physiologist after Harvey.
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| Percy Lane Oliver |
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He created the London Blood Transfusion Service, the first voluntary donor service for local hospitals.
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| Reuben Ottenberg |
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He wrote the first report of the clinical use of compatibility testing of blood.
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| Oswald Robertson |
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He was ingenious in designing apparatus to meet the needs of his experiments.
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| Benjamin Rush |
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He was probably the best-known American physician of his day.
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| Edward Shanbrom |
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He and his colleagues discovered the
process of processing large quantities of Factor VIII.
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| Lester J. Unger |
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He devised a transfusion apparatus that simplified direct blood transfusion.
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| Janet Vaughan |
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Her recommendation that blood be banked in Britain prior to the start of hostilities in World War II helped save many lives.
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| Andreas Vesalius |
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His major work, "De humani corporis fabrica," is a milestone in scientific progress.
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Photos: Hippocrates and Reuben Ottenberg, courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
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