Landmark medical inventions and discoveries, such as vaccines, anesthesia, and the X-ray, matched with their discoverer and approximate date, one breakthrough per card.
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- Who discovered penicillin and in what year?
- Alexander Fleming, 1928
- Who isolated insulin and when?
- Frederick Banting and Charles Best, 1921
- Who discovered X-rays and in what year?
- Wilhelm Röntgen, 1895
- Who developed the first successful smallpox vaccine and when?
- Edward Jenner, 1796
- Who performed the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia and when?
- William T.G. Morton, 1846
- Who developed germ theory and in what era?
- Louis Pasteur, 1860s
- Who pioneered antiseptic surgery and when?
- Joseph Lister, 1865
- Who invented the stethoscope and when?
- Rene Laennec, 1816
- Who developed the inactivated polio vaccine and when?
- Jonas Salk, 1952
- Who determined the structure of DNA and when?
- James Watson, Francis Crick, and Rosalind Franklin, 1953
- Who invented MRI imaging and in what year?
- Paul Lauterbur, 1973
- Who invented the CT scanner and when?
- Godfrey Hounsfield, 1971
- Who classified blood types and when?
- Karl Landsteiner, 1900
- Who invented the electrocardiogram (ECG) and when?
- Willem Einthoven, 1903
- Who first isolated morphine and when?
- Friedrich Serturner, 1803