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Famous Scientists: SL - NO. Scientists Year Contribution

The document lists famous scientists and their contributions to biology and medicine. It includes scientists such as Aristotle, who was considered the father of biology and zoology, William Harvey who discovered blood circulation in 1618-1619, and Robert Hooke who discovered cells in 1665 and coined the term. More recent scientists include James Watson and Francis Crick who discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, and Norman Borlaug who helped increase food production through the Green Revolution in the 1970s.

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Famous Scientists: SL - NO. Scientists Year Contribution

The document lists famous scientists and their contributions to biology and medicine. It includes scientists such as Aristotle, who was considered the father of biology and zoology, William Harvey who discovered blood circulation in 1618-1619, and Robert Hooke who discovered cells in 1665 and coined the term. More recent scientists include James Watson and Francis Crick who discovered the double helix structure of DNA in 1953, and Norman Borlaug who helped increase food production through the Green Revolution in the 1970s.

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FAMOUS SCIENTISTS

SL.NO. SCIENTISTS YEAR CONTRIBUTION

1. Aristotle Father of Biology, Father of Zoology


2. Theophrastus Father of Botany
3. William Harvey 1618-19 Discovered blood circulation
4. Robert Hooke 1665 Discovery of “cell”, coined “cell”
5. Francesco Redi 1668 Disproved ‘ theory of spontaneous generation of life’
6. Carolus Linnaeus Father of taxonomy and Modern botany
Binomial nomenclature
2 kingdom classification
7. Joseph Priestley 1774 Discovered oxygen, role of air in growth of plants
8. Edward Jenner 1796 Father of Immunology- discovered first vaccine
9. Robert Brown 1838 Discovered and coined “nucleus”
10. G.J. Mendel 1866 Father of Genetics, Laws of inheritance
11. Friedrich Miescher 1869 First to isolate nucleic acid from WBC of Pus – called “Nuclein”
12. Walter Flemming 1879 Gave term ‘chromatin’.
13. Rene Lennec 1886 Discovered stethoscope
14. Ivanoski 1892 Discovered virus
15. Camilo Golgi 1898 Discovered Golgi apparatus
16. Altman 1899 Gave term ‘Nucleic acid’ – earlier nucleinic acid and nuclein
17. Karl Landsteiner 1901 ABO blood group in human
18. Sir Ronald Ross 1902 Nobel Prize – mosquito transmission of malaria
19. Frederick Griffith 1928 Transforming experiment on ‘Streptococcus pneumoniae
(pneumococcus) bacteria
20. Sir Alexander 1928 Discovered first antibiotic penicillin
Fleming
21. Knoll and Ruska 1940 Discovered electron microscope
22. Raymond 1942 State 10% law of food chain
Lindeman
23. Erwin Chargaff 1950 Chargaff rule for nitrogenous bases
24. George Palade 1953 Discovered ribosomes
25. James Watson and 1953 Double-helix structure of DNA
Francis Crick
26. Watson, Crick, 1962 Nobel prize – DNA double helix structure
Wilikins
27. Holley, Nirenberg 1968 Nobel prize – work on genetic code and its working
and Khorana
28. Whittaker 1969 Five Kingdom classification
29.
30. Anand Mohan 1971 Develop Pseudomonas putida , an oil spill eating bacteria
Chakraborty
31. Singer and Nicolson 1972 Fluid mosaic model of cell membrane
32. Norman Borlaug 1973 Green revolution in world
33. Thomas Cecz and 1989 Nobel prize – Discovery of catalytic properties of RNA
Sidney Altman
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