Famous Medical Discoveries
Instructions: Breakthrough medical discoveries and their discoverers
- 1.
Who is credited with discovering penicillin in 1928?
AJoseph ListerBRobert KochCLouis PasteurDAlexander Fleming - 2.
Edward Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 to prevent which disease?
AMeaslesBSmallpoxCPolioDTyphoid - 3.
Who discovered X-rays in 1895?
ANiels BohrBWilhelm RöntgenCMax PlanckDMarie Curie - 4.
Which scientists are credited with discovering the structure of DNA in 1953?
AGregor Mendel and Thomas MorganBJames Watson and Francis CrickCLinus Pauling and Erwin ChargaffDRosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins - 5.
Who developed the first successful polio vaccine in 1955?
AThomas FrancisBAlbert SabinCJohn EndersDJonas Salk - 6.
What did William Harvey describe in his groundbreaking 1628 publication?
AThe circulation of bloodBThe digestive processCThe lymphatic systemDThe nervous system - 7.
Who is known as the 'father of modern surgery' for pioneering antiseptic surgical techniques?
AAmbroise ParéBWilliam HalstedCIgnaz SemmelweisDJoseph Lister - 8.
Frederick Banting and Charles Best are celebrated for discovering which life-saving substance in 1921?
AInsulinBAdrenalineCMorphineDAspirin - 9.
Louis Pasteur's germ theory of disease led him to develop a vaccine for which deadly illness in 1885?
ATuberculosisBRabiesCCholeraDAnthrax - 10.
Which physician introduced the practice of handwashing in hospitals in the 1840s, dramatically reducing maternal mortality?
AFlorence NightingaleBRobert KochCJohn SnowDIgnaz Semmelweis - 11.
What medical imaging technology was invented by Godfrey Hounsfield and Allan Cormack in the 1970s?
APET scannerBUltrasoundCMRI scannerDCT scanner - 12.
Who discovered that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, winning the Nobel Prize in 1902?
ACarlos FinlayBPatrick MansonCRonald RossDWalter Reed - 13.
Which Scottish physician pioneered the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during childbirth in the 1840s?
ACrawford LongBJohn SnowCJames Young SimpsonDWilliam Morton - 14.
Robert Koch's postulates helped establish the bacterial cause of which disease in 1882?
ATyphoidBCholeraCPlagueDTuberculosis - 15.
Who performed the world's first successful human heart transplant in 1967?
ANorman ShumwayBDenton CooleyCMichael DeBakeyDChristiaan Barnard