1907 Ehrlich publishes discoveries opening way to chemotherapy.
1907 Metchnikoff. Birth of probiotics.
1907 Van Peters Wilson. Individual tissue cells taken from living organisms kept alive in sea water.
1908 Maximov 1st coins term ‘stem cell’.
1908 Ehrlich reports spontaneously developed tumours can be suppressed by the immune system.
1910 Rutherford discovers atomic nucleus.
1911 Marie Curie (pictured) : Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of elements radium & polonium, by the isolation of radium & study of nature & compounds of this remarkable element.
1912 Mayo establishes appendectomy as appropriate treatment for appendicitis.
1919 Ashby describes lifespan of red cell.
