10 Interesting Fact About Famous inventors of medical devices
10 Interesting Fact About Famous inventors of medical devices
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Alexander Fleming, the inventor of the penicillin, initially aspires to become a farmer.
Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor of the ear washing tool, has more than 1,000 registered patents.
Marie Curie, the inventor of medical imaging tools such as X-Ray, was the first woman to get the Nobel and the only one who won it in two different fields of science.
Charles Drew, the inventor of the blood storage technique, was the first African-American who obtained a doctorate from Columbia University.
Willem Einthoven, Inventor of Electrocardiogram (EKG), won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924.
Percy Spencer, the inventor of the microwave oven, found the technology accidentally when he was working in a company that produces radar.
Paul C. Laorarbur, Inventor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Techniques (MRI), first submitting the idea while swimming in a swimming pool.
George Papanicolaou, the inventor of the Pap Smear test, is a pathological anatomy expert and has no experience in treating patients.
John Hopps, the inventor of the defibrillator, is an electrical engineer that created the device after seeing the electricity effect on the human heart.
Leonard Bailey, the inventor of the first pork heart used in human heart transplants, is actually an orthopedic surgeon and has never done a heart transplant before.
