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The Pioneers of Radiology Thomas Edison  Took notice and questioned the EVANGELISTA TORICELLI effects of x-rays.  Was the inventor or BAROMETER (a device which is use for the NUCLEAR RADIOLOGY measurement...

The Pioneers of Radiology Thomas Edison  Took notice and questioned the EVANGELISTA TORICELLI effects of x-rays.  Was the inventor or BAROMETER (a device which is use for the NUCLEAR RADIOLOGY measurement of air pressure)  Improvements in x-ray equipment brought about several other studies BENJAMIN FRANKLIN in radiology  Experiment demonstrated the Earnest Lawrence connection between lightning and  1932 invented the cyclotron electricity. Cyclotron WILIAM CROOKES  A type of particle accelerator which  Pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing repeatedly propels a beam of the Crookes Tube was made in 1875. charged particles (protons) in a circular path. DISCOVERY OF X-RAYS  produced radiosotopes. Technetium- 99m. Flourin-18. Gallium-67. WILHEM CONRAD ROETGEN Thallium-201  Born on March 27, 1845, in lennep (a small town near the Rhine River Radioisotopes in Germany)  some other methods of producing  Only child of Friedrich Conrad are CYCLOTRON, NUCLEAR Roetgen. REACTOR, RADIONUCLIDE  1872 - married to Anna Berth GENERATOR Ludwig  1888 - offered employment at Radiation Wurzburg University  An energy that moves from one  He became interested in cathode place to another in a form that can ray experiment by using crookes be described as waves or particles. tube.  November 8, 1895. discovery of X- Non-ionizing Radiation Rays. He noticed barium  A type of low energy radiation that platinocyanide does not have enough energy to  Roetgen proved that he produced remove election from an atom or some type of ray and name it x-rays molecule. (x being mathematical symbol for 1. Extreme low requency unknown quantity) 2. Radio  Barium Platinocyanide the first 3. Microwave radiation detector. 4. Infrared  December 28, 1895. Roetgen 5. Visible light submitted a report ON A NEW 6. Ultraviolet KIND OF RAYS Ionizing Radiation  1896 - Matteucci Medal of the  Refers to radiation that has enough Academia nazionale della scienze. energy to break an electron from an  1897 - Elliott Cresson Medal of the atom, a process called ionization. Franklin Institute. 1. Ultraviolet  1901 - Nobel Prize in Physics for 2. X-rays the discovery of X-rays. 3. Gamma rays Epidemic Nineteenth Century  A widespread infection in a given geographic area. Pierre and Marie Curie  The Curies Discover Radium Pandemic  Radium (Ra) a highly radioactive  An infectious disease of global alkaline earth metal that is naturally proportions found in uranium ores.  Also been used for internal Life Expetency radiation therapy.  Number of years a person can expect to live. Autopsies were the major focus of medicine during this century Health  Physical, Mental and Social well Claude Bernard being of a human.  Founder of Experimental Medicine  A french phusiologist klnown Disease chiefty for his discoveries  An abnormal condition. concerning the role of the pancrease in digestion, the Morbidity glycogenic function of the liver,  State of having a disease, illness or and the regulation of the blood medical condition. supply by the vasomotor nerves. Comorbidity James Marion Sims  More than one illness.  Father of Gynecology.  He invented the left lateral Mortality Rate decubitus position.  Number of deaths. Gregor Mendel  Founding of Genetics Twentieth Century  19th century it was believed that an organism traits were passed on to Paul Ehrlich offsprings  A German Scientist, born in 1985. The Father of Chemotherapy. Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec  French physician in 1816, who Willem Einthoven invented the stethoscope.  Father of electrocardiography (EOG). Beat and built a machine Eighteenth Century that could measure the electrical current a heart creates. Edward Jenner  English surgeon and discoveries of Electron Microscope a vaccine for smallpox  1930. study of viruses and advances in the field of biochemistry, The Renaissance biophysics, physical chemistry, and immunology. Paracelus  Father of Toxicology  First to use minerals and other chemical in medicine. Herophilus  Father of Anatomy  First person to perform systematic dissertion of the human body predating Andreas Vesalius  Father of Modern Anatomy  Who revolutionized the study of biology and the practice of medicine. Ancient Greece  Healing temples of Asclepios in Thessaly Pre- Hippocratic Medicine Thales  The basic element in all animal and plant life was water. Anaximander  Evolutionary of living things  Moist element by evaporation  Air is the source of all things Heraclitus  Believed that fire was the principal element of life Hippocrates  Father of Medicine  Placed medicine on a scientific foundation Abaton  Was a building considered to be an incubation site. Maslow hierarchy of needs  Self-actualization  Self-esteem  Love and belonging  Safety and security  Physiological needs