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Jonas Salk | polio vaccine |
Clara Barton | founder of American Red Cross |
Hippocrates | father of medicine |
Florence Nightengale | first nurse; mother of nursing |
William Harvey | discovered how blood circulates in body |
Robert Jarvik | developed Jarvic-7 artificial heart |
James Derham | first African Amercian physician to practice medicine |
Elizabeth Blackwell | first female physician |
team for Robert Briggs | first to clone DNA |
James McCune Smith | first African Amercian physician to earn a medical degree |
Dr. Barney Clark | first human recipient of artificial heart |
Dr. Benjamin Rush | father of AMERICAN medicine |
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek | invented microsope |
Mary BethMahoney | first African Amercian nurse |
Robert Hooke | discovered cells |
Dr. Robert Gello | HIV |
Antonia Novello | first woman and first Latina Surgeon General |
Dr. SarahEllen Palmer | first female surgeon |
William Roentgen | X-rays |
Dr. Joan Pere | did world's first full face transplant |
Peter Safer | developed live saving technique |
Bessie Cooper | oldest living person |
Salvino Degli Armati | Man who invented eye glasses |