Charles Richet was born on August 26, 1850 in Paris. His father was Alfred Richet a professor of Clinical Surgery in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Charles would go on to study in Paris and became Doctor in Medicine in the year 1869. In 1878 he became Doctor in Science and then go on to be Professor of Physiology in the year 1887 onwards in the Faculty of Medicine Paris. In his experiments with therapeutics Richet showed that an animal’s blood vaccinated against an infection would protect against that infection. Applying his principle to tuberculosis Richet did the first serotherapeutic injection done to man in the year 1890. In the year 1913 Charles Richet was awarded the Nobel Prize for his research done on anaphylaxis. He invented the word to designate the sensitivity developed by an organism after being injected with a colloid or protein substance or a toxin (). These works are just a few of the things that Charles Richet has contributed to the science and healthcare world. …show more content…
As a Catholic missionary Mother Teresa was a very influential person. She was born August 26, 1910. She began her career working the the slums of Calcutta in India in the year 1948. Throughout her career Mother Teresa did many things to help people in need, such as opening schools, hospitals, and orphanages. With her fame and reputation her projects spread world wide. With all the good that Mother Teresa did, there was some criticism toward the work she did, such as the quality of the care in the hospitals she opened and the spending of donated money. Despite the criticism, Mother Teresa was widely loved and she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979