Discovery of blood groups

1901

Austrian doctor Karl Landsteiner discovers blood types, which allows major medical advances to be made, such as safe transfusions and the identification of traces of blood in the field of forensic medicine. The doctor himself had blood type O.

Marie Curie

December 10, 1903

Marie Curie becomes the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Born in Poland, under the name Maria Salomea Skłodowska, she is the only woman to have been awarded the prize twice, for physics and chemistry.

Albert Einstein

September 27, 1905

1905 is the "miraculous year" for German-born scientist Albert Einstein. It marks a real revolution in science, through a series of works on various aspects of light, matter, time and space.

The discovery of penicillin

September 28, 1928

Alexander Fleming, a Scottish doctor and bacteriologist, accidentally discovers penicillin. A decade and a half later, this antibiotic saves the first patient.

Richard Jordan Gatling

1818-1903

He was an American inventor of the nineteenth century, who borrowed the name of his invention of the head, which can rightly be said to have revolutionized the art of war. This is the Gatling weapon, the first functional machine gun in history.

Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

The father of antiseptic medicine, the British surgeon Joseph Lister discovered the solution to the problem of wound infection, which was to blame for 50% of the deaths of his patients, victims of amputations, while working in the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow: phenol, or carbolic acid.

John von Neumann (1903-1957)

Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician who contributed decisively to a wide range of fields, such as quantum mechanics, continuous geometry, economics, game theory, cybernetics, hydrodynamics, statistics, and more.

Tim Berners-Lee 1955

We are not exaggerating by saying that this article would have been impossible in the online version if the American Tim Berners-Lee had not poured the foundation of the World Wide Web as a communication application while working at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.

The invention of the parachute

August 25, 1914

Slovak inventor Štefan Banič receives a patent for his military parachute. This is the first actively used parachute, which will later become part of the standard equipment of pilots.