Imagine a world without drugs; A terrifying place where even a simple infection can lead to a death sentence. It's hard to understand, isn't it? From the discovery of antibiotics to vaccines and painkillers, the medical world is full of heroes who made these life-changing discoveries.
Albert Hofmann is a Swiss chemist who is the inventor of LSD, which is considered a narcotic and banned in many countries. Hofmann discovered the psychedelic LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide-25), used by millions of people from the hippie generation in the 1960s, in 1938 while researching the medicinal uses of mold fungi found in wheat and other grains at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz.
Sir William Osler, Baronet (12 July 1849 – 29 December 1919), Canadian physician who played an important role in the organization and modernization of medical education.
Thomas Sydenham, known as the "English Hippocrates" and who defined "Sydenham's Chorea", said in 1680, "Among the remedies offered by God to relieve human suffering, none is as universal and useful as opium."
He is famous as the creator of the Bofor Wind Scale, which measures the speed of winds experimentally. Beaufort retired from the navy in 1829, at the age of 55, and was appointed hydrographer to the British admiralty, a position he held for 25 years.
Ed and Lorraine Warren, the couple who inspired the horror movie series "The Conjuring", are known to the public as paranormal investigators, demonologists, or ghost hunters.
He wrote the theory of the god particle, which is believed to add mass to particles such as electrons and quarks. They conducted experiments at CERN and proved the existence of that particle. He received the Nobel Prize in 2013 for his work on this subject. British scientist Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the Higgs boson, died at the age of 94.
She was the first person to discover the greenhouse effect and its role in warming the Earth's climate.
He received the Lenin Prize together with Prokhorov in 1959 for his work that paved the way for the development of the maser and laser, and the Nobel Prize in Physics together with Prokhorov and Townes in 1964 for his contributions to quantum electronics.
German physician. He carried out one of the first experimental studies on electrical stimulation of the brain. The most important feature of Fritsch is that he worked in various branches of science. The most important of his extensive research, ranging from astronomy to anthropology, is on the electrophysiology of the brain.
