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Author:

Foy, Debbie.

Title:

Medical pioneers / By Debbie Foy.

Publisher:

PowerKids Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Medical research personnel--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Physicians--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Medical innovations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 30) and index

Contents:

What is a medical pioneer? -- Alexander Fleming -- Harold Delf Gillies -- Frederick Banting -- Jonas Salk -- Francis Crick and James Watson -- Gertrude Elion -- Christiaan Barnard -- Benjamin Carson -- Eleanor Davies-Colley -- Karl Landsteiner -- Ernst Ruska -- Virginia Apgar -- Alice Hamilton -- Robert A Good -- Paul Lauterbur -- Timeline.

Summary:

Highlights our medical achievements and the lives of key figures that helped it all come to fruition.

Series:

20th century lives

ISBN:

1448832934
9781448832934 (library binding)

LCCN:

2010024103

Locations:

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)