Louis Pasteur is at the top of a long list of greats. He contributed to stereochemistry, wine and cheese industries, milk pasteurization (duh), and along with Semmelweis, promoted asepsis in surgery and obstetrics.
Another personal favorite is Aleksandr Borodin who is remembered today for his musical compositions, but he was actually an advanced chemical researcher who made important discoveries.
Among the long list of Nobel laureates, Robert Koch struggled to prove the germ theory of disease, Robert Barany was a POW when he received the Prize in WWI, and Peyton Rous and Barbara McClintock had to wait decades before their discoveries were recognized. So many favorites.
2007-11-22 04:52:52
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answered by greydoc6 7
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Sushruta (also spelt Susruta or Sushrutha) (c. 6th century BC) was a renowkned surgeon of ancient India, and the author of the book Sushruta Samhita. In his book, he described over 120 surgical instruments, 300 surgical procedures and classifies human surgery in 8 categories. He lived and taught and practiced his art on the banks of the Ganga in the area that corresponds to the present day city of Varanasi in North India.
In the Sushruta school, the first person to expound Äyurvedic knowledge was Dhanvantari who then taught it to Divodasa who, in turn, taught it to Sushruta, Aupadhenava, Aurabhra, PaushakalÄvata, Gopurarakshita, and Bhoja.
Because of his seminal and numerous contributions to the science and art of surgery he is also known by the title "Father of Surgery." Much of what is known about this inventive surgeon is contained in a series of volumes he authored, which are collectively known as the Susrutha Samhita. The "Samhita" has some writings that date as late as the 1st century, and some scholars believe that there were contributions and additions to his teachings from generations of his students and disciples. Susrutha is also the father of Plastic Surgery and Cosmetic Surgery since his technique of forehead flap rhinoplasty (repairing the disfigured nose with a flap of skin from the forehead),that he used to reconstruct noses that were amputated, is practiced almost unchanged in technique to this day. The Susrutha Samhita contains the first known description of several operations, including the uniting of bowel, the removal of the prostate gland, the removal of cataract lenses and the draining of abscesses. Susrutha was also the first surgeon to advocate the practice of operations on inanimate objects such as watermelons, clay plots and reeds; thus predating the modern practice of the surgical workshop by half a millennium.
Sushruta was also a notable teacher. He told his pupils that one could become a good physician only if one knew both theory and practice. He advised his pupils to use carcases and models for practice before surgery.In addition to classifying worms that infect the human body, leeches for bloodletting, medicinal herbs, alkalies and metals, Sushruta gave a vague classification of animals.
2007-11-25 07:20:03
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answered by ABHINAV P 2
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My favourite scientist is Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, the eleventh-century Muslim scholar who developed the scientific method--the system of inquiry that uses experiments to test hypotheses.
Born in Basra (located in what is now Iraq) in 965, Ibn al-Haytham—known in the West as Alhazen or Alhacen—wrote more than 200 books and treatises on a wide range of subjects. He was the first person to apply algebra to geometry, founding the branch mathematics known as analytic geometry.
Ibn al-Haytham created discreet, verifiable experiments to test the validity of ideas. To test his hypothesis that “lights and colors do not blend in the air,” for example, Ibn al-Haytham devised the world's first camera obscura, observed what happened when light rays intersected at its aperture, and recorded the results. This is just one of dozens of “true demonstrations,” or experiments, contained in KitÄb al-ManÄzir (Book of Optics).
KitÄb al-ManÄzir was translated into Latin as De aspectibus in the late thirteenth century in Spain. All major European scientists—from Bacon and Witelo to Kepler and Newton—were familiar with his work. The Europeans did not fully grasp his mathematics until the seventeenth century. Many of his discoveries about light and vision remain true today. He is the father of modern science and remains its greatest practitioner. http://www.ibnalhaytham.net/
2007-11-23 12:37:39
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answered by Centaur 6
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Edward Jenner. He experimented on his own son to discover small pox vaccine.
2007-11-22 09:52:58
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answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7
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i think the answer for ur question would be (in my opinion)
MR.Albert Einstien!!!! HE WAS JUST ROCKING TYPE MOST OF THE PEOPLE THINK THAT HE WAS MAD BY HAVING THOSE SHOCKING HAIR STYLE BUT HE IS THE ONLY FATHER OF SCIENCE!!!!
2007-11-22 08:35:04
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answered by BLOOM 2
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benicillin injection distribuiter benicillin .he is very intelligent and useful scientist distribuite the injection
2007-11-23 04:32:21
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answered by rajkumar r 3
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