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WTSN 112 Midterm
Bioengineering
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Engineering
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2011

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Sacharias Jansen
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1590
-Invents microscope.
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Rene Laennec
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1816
-Invents stethoscope.
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Gregor Mendel
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1863
-Studies genetics through the traits of peas.
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The rabies vaccine is invented in
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1883
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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1895
-Discovers x-rays.
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He is known for his role in creating the first cell with a synthetic genome in 2010. Who is he?
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Craig Venter
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Kevin Touhy receives a patent for a plastic contact lens designed to cover only the eye's cornea, a major change from earlier designs. In what year did he receive his patent?
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1948
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Who successfully treated a dying patient in his native Holland with an "artificial kidney," the first kidney dialysis machine? This creation was made of wooden drums, cellophane tubing, and laundry tubs and was able to draw the blood, clean it of impurities, and pump it back into the body.
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Willem J Kolff
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He is known as the father of genetic algorithms and is a pioneer in complex systems and nonlinear science. Who is he?
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John Holland
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In 1951 Charles Hufnagel, a professor of experimental surgery at Georgetown University, develops prosthetic device and implants it in a human patient the following year. What is this artificial device?
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Heart valve
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In 1903 Dutch physician and physiologist Willem Einthoven develops the first machine, a simple, thin, lightweight quartz "string" galvanometer, suspended in a magnetic field that is capable of measuring small changes in electrical potential in a person. This machine is a
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Electrocardiograph
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What surgery did Steven Trokel perform on a human?
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Laser surgery on a cornea
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In 1952 Paul M. Zoll of Boston‟s Beth Israel Hospital, in conjunction with the Electrodyne Company, develops a bulky device, worn externally on the patient‟s belt, that plugs into an electric wall socket. What is this device?
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Cardiac pacemaker
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The first commercial MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scanner arrives on the medical market in
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1981
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Harvard medical researcher Philip Drinker, assisted by Louis Agassiz Shaw, devises the first modern practical medical ventilator using an iron box and two vacuum cleaners in
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1927
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