
Relier Pairs Pioneers of global healthVersion en ligne Are you able to name these advances in the health area? par BBVA OpenMind 1 Marthe Gautier 2 Alice Catherine Evans 3 Florence Nightingale 4 Rosalind Franklin 5 Joseph Lister 6 Edward Jenner 7 Ignaz Semmelweis 8 Elizabeth Blackwell She confronted her family, challenging the mores of the time and ended up becoming the first professional nurse in history, having improved the care given to those injured in the Crimean war, and thus made nursing popular among the women of the time. Following up on Pasteur's ideas, this surgeon discovered a chemical substance that served as an antiseptic to kill germs in the operating room. She is credited with important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, carbon, and graphite. In 1917, she discovered Brucella, the bacteria that cause brucellosis in animals and Malta fever in humans. She is also considered to be the pioneering microbiologist responsible for safe milk. The English physician who performed the first vaccination in history in 1796. He is known as "the father of immunology” and through his work he is attributed with saving the most lives throughout history. While studying the high incidence of childbirth fever in his clinic, he discovered the importance of hand-washing in order to eliminate the microbes that cause infectious diseases. Up to 29 university departments rejected her entry application simply because of her gender, but she managed to become the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the United States, one of the first women in the world to become a doctor. This geneticist is still fighting for recognition for her role in the discovery of the cause of Down syndrome. She alleges she was the one who pointed to the existence of chromosome number 47.

Relier Pairs

Pioneers of global healthVersion en ligne

Are you able to name these advances in the health area?

par BBVA OpenMind

Marthe Gautier

Alice Catherine Evans

Florence Nightingale

Rosalind Franklin

Joseph Lister

Edward Jenner

Ignaz Semmelweis

Elizabeth Blackwell

She confronted her family, challenging the mores of the time and ended up becoming the first professional nurse in history, having improved the care given to those injured in the Crimean war, and thus made nursing popular among the women of the time.

Following up on Pasteur's ideas, this surgeon discovered a chemical substance that served as an antiseptic to kill germs in the operating room.

She is credited with important contributions to understanding the structure of DNA, RNA, viruses, carbon, and graphite.

In 1917, she discovered Brucella, the bacteria that cause brucellosis in animals and Malta fever in humans. She is also considered to be the pioneering microbiologist responsible for safe milk.

The English physician who performed the first vaccination in history in 1796. He is known as "the father of immunology” and through his work he is attributed with saving the most lives throughout history.

While studying the high incidence of childbirth fever in his clinic, he discovered the importance of hand-washing in order to eliminate the microbes that cause infectious diseases.

Up to 29 university departments rejected her entry application simply because of her gender, but she managed to become the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the United States, one of the first women in the world to become a doctor.

This geneticist is still fighting for recognition for her role in the discovery of the cause of Down syndrome. She alleges she was the one who pointed to the existence of chromosome number 47.