| 1628 |
Blood Circulation |
William Harvey |
British |
| 1675 |
Protozoa |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch |
| 1684 |
Red Corpuscles |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |
Dutch |
| 1740 |
Treatment of Scurvy |
James Lind |
British |
| 1762 |
Microbes |
M A Plenciz |
Austrian |
| 1776 |
Nitrous Oxide |
Joseph Priestley |
British |
| 1796 |
Smallpox Vaccination |
Edward Jenner |
British |
| 1805 |
Morphine |
Friedrich Sertiirner |
German |
| 1833 |
Enzymes |
Anselme Payen, Jean-Francois Persoz |
French |
| 1846 |
Ether as an Anaesthetic |
William Morton |
American |
| 1847 |
Chloroform |
James Simpson |
British |
| 1856 |
Function of the Adrenal Gland |
Alfred Vulpian |
French |
| 1865 |
Antisepsis |
Joseph Lister |
British |
| 1865 |
Heredity |
Gregor Mendel |
Austrian |
| 1869 |
Leprosy Bacillus |
Gerhard Hansen |
Norwegian |
| 1869 |
Nucleic Acid |
J F Miescher |
Swiss |
| 1880 |
Typhus Bacillus |
Karl Eberth |
German |
| 1881 |
Yellow Fever, Mosquito Transmission |
Ronald Ross |
British |
| 1882 |
Tuberculosis Bacillus |
Robert Koch |
German |
| 1884 |
Diphtheria Bacillus |
Edwin Klebs and Friedrich L Offler |
German |
| 1885 |
Rabies Vaccination |
Louis Pasteur |
French |
| 1888 |
Chromosomes |
Thomas Morgan |
American |
| 1892 |
X-Rays |
Heinrich Hertz |
German |
| 1895 |
Sleeping Sickness Transmission |
David Bruce |
British |
| 1895 |
Properties of X-Rays |
Wilhelm Rontgen |
German |
| 1897 |
Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) |
Christiaan Eijkman |
Dutch |
| 1901 |
Adrenalin |
Jokichi Takamine |
Japanese |
| 1901 |
Blood Groups |
Karl Landsteiner |
Austrian |
| 1901 |
Cause of Diabetes |
Eugene Opic |
American |
| 1906 |
Importance of Vitamins |
Sir Frederick Hopkins |
British |
| 1913 |
Vitamin A |
E McCollum, M Davis, T Osborne, L Mendel |
American |
| 1913 |
Vitamin B (Niacin) |
Casimir Funk |
Polish |
| 1915 |
Heparin |
Jay McLean |
American |
| 1915 |
Tomography |
Andre Bocage |
French |
| 1921 |
Isolated Insulin |
F G Banting, C H Best, J J R McLeod |
Canadian |
| 1923 |
Vitamin E |
H M Evans, Bishop |
American |
| 1924 |
Isolated Vitamin D |
Steenbock, Hess, Weinstock |
German |
| 1928 |
Penicillin |
Alexander Fleming |
British |
| 1928 |
Isolated Vitamin C |
A von Szent-Gyorgi |
Hungarian |
| 1929 |
Electro-Encephalogram |
Hans Berger |
German |
| 1933 |
Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) |
R Kuhn, A von Szent-Gyorgi, J Wagner-Jauregg |
Austrian, Hungarian, Austrian |
| 1933 |
Vitamin B5 |
R J Williams |
American |
| 1934 |
Cortisone |
Edward Kendall |
American |
| 1934 |
Vitamin K1 |
Carl Peter Henrik Dam |
Danish |
| 1936 |
Vitamin B6 |
Birch, A von Szent-Gyorgi |
US, Hungarian |
| 1937 |
Vitamin B12 |
G R Minot, W P Murphy |
British |
| 1937 |
Vitamin B3 |
Madden, Strong, Wooley, Elvehjem |
British, American |
| 1938 |
Vitamin B9 |
Day |
British |
| 1939 |
Rhesus Factor |
Karl Landsteiner, A S Wiener |
Austrian |
| 1943 |
Streptomycin |
Selman Waksman |
American |
| 1953 |
Structure of DNA |
Francis Crick and James Watson |
British, American |
| 1957 |
Interferon |
A Isaacs, J Lindemann |
UK, Swiss |
| 1959 |
Cause of Down's Syndrome |
Dr Jerome Lejeune |
French |
| 1975 |
Endorphins |
Hughes, Guillemin |
American |
| 1981 |
AIDS |
Lost Angeles scientists |
American |
| 1983 |
Isolated HIV Virus |
Luc Montagnier et al |
French |
