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Living Sciences - The Most Influential People in History

1. Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882) - Darwin developed the speculation of evolution which is the fundamental elucidation of how all living things evolved.

2. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) - Pasteur discovered that germs spring disease, invents pasteurization and a rabies vaccine.

3. Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 377 B.C.E.) - Hippocrates is the male parent of western medicine.

4. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) - Aristotle was the first to use the according to principles laws method in a systematic way to inquiry the living world.  He pioneered the application of mind of zoology, both observational and theoretical, in which his be in action was not surpassed until the 19th century. His be in action on the classification of animals by mode of a scale ascending to man (without implying evolvement) was not fully appreciated until the 19th hundred:  Darwin acknowledged a obligation to him.

5. John Ray (1627-1705) - More than anybody else, he made the research of botany and zoology a philosophical pursuit, bringing symmetry and logic to the investigation of the alive world out of the chaos that existed before.

6. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) - Linnaeus is the institutor of modern systematic botany and zoology.

7. Galen (c. 130-200) - For fifteen hundred years the cardinal source of European physicians’ discernment of the human body was the works of Galen. This work of the first class source became a revered difficulty. Of all the ancient writers on knowledge, except Aristotle and Ptolemy, none was more powerful than Galen.

8. Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) - Virchow was the originator of cellular pathology. His favose hypothesis called the small room the fundamental unit of the breath of life and the ultimate irreducible configuration of every living element, and . . . from it pour out incessantly all the activities of life both in soundness and in sickness. His highly powerful book, Cellular Pathology set onward the principles upon which medical study would be based for the next hundred years and more.

9. Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - Leeuwenhoek was the first one to discover microorganisms in 1676 through a microscope he had made. He disproved the plan of spontaneous generation which had been a lengthy held belief and impediment to further advances in the living sciences.

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