Medicine 1999 - www.thebluebellegallery.co.uk by Heather Hems

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PROF. CHRISTIAN BARNARD - (November 8, 1922 - September 2, 2001) was a famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant. JOSEPH LISTER - (5 April 1827 - 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery and successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize surgical instruments and to clean wounds. ALEXANDER FLEMING - (6 August 1881 - 11 March 1955) His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928. MARIE CURIE - (November 7, 1867 - July 4, 1934) was a physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity, and the first female professor at the University of Paris. WILLIAM RONTGEN (March 27, 1845 - February 10, 1923) produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Röntgen SIR RONALD ROSS KCB - (13 May 1857 - 16 September 1932) In India Sir Ronald Ross is remembered with great respect because of his relentless work on malaria. JONAS SALK - (October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) was an American biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine.