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| Hippocrates | founded the first medical school, located on the Greek island of Cos |
| Aristotle | developed the first organized study of natural history |
| Theophrastus | specialized in the organized study of plants;"ancient father of botany" |
| Galen | unchallenged authority on anatomy (A.D. 130-200) |
| Vesalius | studied human body by dissection, ignoring authority of Galen |
| Malpighi | described the metamorphosis of the silkworm |
| Harvey | demonstated the path of blood in the human body |
| Hooke | discovered and named "cells" in cork |
| Leeuwenhoek | first person to see living cells |
| Linnaeus | devised the system of binomial nomenclature - genus/species |
| Cuvier | founded the study of comparative anatomy |
| Lamarck | devised the word "biology" |
| Roentgen | discovered X rays |
| physiology | functions of body organs and systems |
| x ray diffraction | used to detemine the structure of DNA |
| analytical balance | weighs micro quantities |
| manometer | measures respiratory gases |
| high-voltage electron | creates a three-dimensional photograph of a specimen |
| epidemiologists | scientsts who specialize in tracking the pathways of diesease outbreaks |
