30 Nobel Prizes: Discoveries that Changed Medicine

Basic knowledge of medicine is necessary for anyone who has to see doctors and take medications - practically every one of us. This book is about how the medicine we know today came into being. In the 20th and 21st centuries, major discoveries in the fields of medicine and physiology were made, influencing the lives of all humanity. Many of the discoveries are marked by the main award for scientists - the Nobel Prize. Pavlov and Mechnikov, Koch and Fleming, Morgan, Crick, Watson - the fates of titans and their most significant discoveries from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. 30 of the most important medical discoveries in human history are gathered in this wonderful book for a wide audience.