Medical pioneers
By: By Debbie Foy
Series: 20th century lives
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781448832934
Subjects: Medical research personnel; Biography; Juvenile literature; Physicians; Medical innovations; History
Description: Highlights our medical achievements and the lives of key figures that helped it all come to fruition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 30) and index
Table of contents: title: What is a medical pioneer?; title: Alexander Fleming; title: Harold Delf Gillies; title: Frederick Banting; title: Jonas Salk; title: Francis Crick and James Watson; title: Gertrude Elion; title: Christiaan Barnard; title: Benjamin Carson; title: Eleanor Davies-Colley; title: Karl Landsteiner; title: Ernst Ruska; title: Virginia Apgar; title: Alice Hamilton; title: Robert A Good; title: Paul Lauterbur; title: Timeline.