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Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790Electricity, bifocals, and the American public sphere.
George Washington Carver
1864 – 1943Crop rotation and peanut science that rescued Southern soil and farmers.
Roger J. Williams
1893 – 1988Discovered pantothenic acid and argued for biochemical individuality — the idea beneath functional medicine.
Barbara McClintock
1902 – 1992Discovered jumping genes decades before the field caught up.
Rachel Carson
1907 – 1964Silent Spring launched the environmental movement and got DDT banned.
Richard Feynman
1918 – 1988QED, nanotechnology's founding lecture, and the Challenger diagnosis.
Marie Tharp
1920 – 2006Mapped the ocean floor and proved continental drift.
Jeffrey Bland
b. 1946Coined and codified functional medicine; founded the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991.
Candace Pert
1946 – 2013Discovered the opiate receptor and argued the body is a single emotional-molecular network.
David Perlmutter
b. 1954Neurologist who put diet, glycemia and the microbiome at the centre of brain health.
Jennifer Doudna
b. 1964CRISPR gene editing, now in approved sickle-cell therapy.