Medical Breakthroughs: Legends of Discovery Quiz

Question 1

Which scientist, often portrayed in films about the 1928 discovery, accidentally found Penicillin in a moldy petri dish?

A Joseph Lister

B Robert Koch

C Louis Pasteur

D Alexander Fleming

Question 2

Which Nobel Prize-winning scientist, known as the mother of modern microbiology, discovered Radium and Polonium?

A Marie Curie

B Florence Nightingale

C Rosalind Franklin

D Barbara McClintock

Question 3

This doctor, often cited in historical dramas, proved that handwashing significantly reduced puerperal fever mortality rates.

A Edward Jenner

B Andreas Vesalius

C William Osler

D Ignaz Semmelweis

Question 4

Which physician is credited with developing the smallpox vaccine, the world's first successful vaccine?

A Edward Jenner

B Albert Sabin

C Jonas Salk

D Paul Ehrlich

Question 5

This scientist, famously remembered for his work on the double helix structure, co-discovered the structure of DNA.

A James Watson

B Gregor Mendel

C Thomas Hunt Morgan

D Charles Darwin

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