Twórcy największych w historii odkryć ratujących życie
Żydowscy laureaci nagrody „Twórcy największych w historii odkryć ratujących życie” udokumentowani w katalogu ThankJews. Żydzi stanowią około 26% wszystkich laureatów — przy około 0,2% udziału w ludności świata.
27 udokumentowanych laureatów
Fritz Haber1918
Haber-Bosch Process (Ammonia Synthesis)
Źródło: Nobel Prize Chemistry 1918
Karl Landsteiner1930
Discovery of the human blood groups
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1930
Richard Lewisohn1875
Surgeon who developed sodium citrate anticoagulation, making stored blood transfusion practical.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Abel Wolman1919
Standardized the chlorination of drinking water — credited with ~91 million lives saved
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews among the creators of history's greatest lifesaving advances (ScienceHeroes.com)
Benjamin Rubin1917
Microbiologist who invented the bifurcated needle used to eradicate smallpox
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Aaron Ismach1922
Inventor of the jet injector gun used in mass vaccination campaigns
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Samuel Katz1927
Pediatrician who co-developed the measles vaccine.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Ernst Boris Chain1906
Biochemist awarded the 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating penicillin and developing it into a usable therapeutic drug
Źródło: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chain
David Nalin1941
Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for cholera and diarrhea
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Richard Cash1941
Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy, saving millions from diarrheal disease
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Norbert Hirschhorn1938
Physician who helped develop oral rehydration therapy for diarrheal disease
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
David Sachar1939
Gastroenterologist, research on inflammatory bowel disease
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Paul Ehrlich1908
Chemotherapy
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1908
Alfred Sommer1942
Epidemiologist who showed vitamin A prevents childhood blindness and death
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Baruch Blumberg1976
Hepatitis B Virus and Vaccine
Źródło: Nobel Prize Medicine 1976
Irving Millman1923
Microbiologist who co-developed the hepatitis B vaccine and blood test.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Gertrude Elion1988
Rational drug design principles yielding treatments for leukemia and other diseases
Źródło: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Medicine 1988
Jacob Gershon-Cohen1899
Radiologist who pioneered mammography for early breast cancer detection
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Albert Salomon1913
Pioneer of the mammogram for early breast-cancer detection
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews among the creators of history's greatest lifesaving advances (ScienceHeroes.com)
Jonas Salk1955
Polio Vaccine
Źródło: Developed first safe polio vaccine
Albert Sabin1961
Oral Polio Vaccine
Źródło: Oral Live-Attenuated Vaccine
John Robbins1932
Physician who co-developed the Hib conjugate vaccine against childhood meningitis
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Rachel Schneerson1932
Physician who co-developed the Hib conjugate vaccine against childhood meningitis.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Alexander S. Wiener1907
Immunohematologist who co-discovered the Rh blood factor with Karl Landsteiner, making safe transfusion and the treatment of haemolytic disease of the newborn possible
Źródło: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Wiener
Ronald Finn1930
Physician whose work helped prevent Rhesus (Rh) hemolytic disease of the newborn
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science
Brian Druker1955
Oncologist who developed imatinib (Gleevec), a breakthrough targeted therapy for leukemia.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology
Henry Heimlich1920
Thoracic surgeon who devised the Heimlich maneuver for relieving choking.
Źródło: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biology