Historical Background (People)

Question 1

He is the Father of Medicine.

Answer 1

Hippocrates
(460-357 BC)

Question 2

He is the Father of Science of Nutrition.

Answer 2

Antoine Laurent Lavosier
(1743-1794)

Question 3

A French chemist with significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy.

Answer 3

Jean Bousingalt
(1801-1887)

Question 4

He stated “Iron in hemoglobin made it possible for blood to absorb oxygen”

Answer 4

Jon Jakob Berzelius
(1779-1838)

Question 5

He stated “Milk contain small quantities of unknown substances essential to life”

Answer 5

Lunnin
(1838)

Question 6

Beri-beri is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of vitamins.

Answer 6

Christiaan Ejkman
(1897)

Question 7

The first to formulate the concept of vitamins in which he called vital amines or vitamins.

Answer 7

Casimir Funk
(1912)

Question 8

White rats fed milk diet developed anemia. Traces of Cu added to Fe salts could cure Fe-deficiency.

Answer 8

Hart and Associates
(1925)