• Question: Which scientist do you think made the greatest impact on modern day medicine?

    Asked by emmer_lmao to Andy, Dwaine, Natt, Priya, Tatiana on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Andrew Scott

      Andrew Scott answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      There are so many! William Harvey – who described the circulation of the blood, Willhelm Roentgen – who discovered x-rays, Crick and Watson who discovered the structure of DNA and Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin.

      If I had to pick one, I’d probably pick Roentgen, because I work in medical imaging.

    • Photo: Tatiana Trantidou

      Tatiana Trantidou answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      There are plenty, I couldn’t choose just one; Rosalind Franklin who discovered the molecular structure of DNA even before Watson and Crick, Shinya Yamanaka – who received the Novel Prize in Medicine in 2012 for discovering that we can convert any cell from our body to a stem cell. And of course I couldn’t exclude some brilliant engineers, such as Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – who got a Nobel Prize for inventing the X-ray computed tomography (CT scan) and Rune Elmqvist- who invented the first implantable pacemaker.

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