Important People 1

Question 1

Marie Curie

Answer 1

Isolated radium in 1910

Question 2

Gregory Mendel

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Established the patterns of heredity

Question 3

Edward Jenner

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Developed a vaccine for smallpox in 1796

Question 4

William Harvey

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Described the circulation of blood to and from the heart

Question 5

The Romans

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Began public health and sanitation systems

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William Roentgen

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Discovered X-rays in 1895

Question 7

Hippocrates

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The father of medicine

Question 8

Sir Alexander Fleming

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Discovered penicillin in 1928

Question 9

Leonardo da Vinci

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Artist who used dissection to draw the human body

Question 10

Dark ages

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Emphasis was placed on saving the soul and study of medicine was prohibited

Question 11

Clara Barton

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Founded the American Red Cross in 1881

Question 12

Egyptians

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Earliest people known to maintain accurate health records

Question 13

Louis Pasteur

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Began pasteurizing milk to kill bacteria

Question 14

The Chinese

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Used acupuncture to relieve pain and congestion

Question 15

Robert Koch

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Developed the culture plate method to identify pathogens

Question 16

Florence Nightingale

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Founder of modern nursing

Question 17

Joseph Lister

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Began using disinfectants and antiseptics during surgery

Question 18

Gabriel Fahrenheit

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Created the first Mercury thermometer

Question 19

Jonas Stalk

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Developed the first polio vaccine in 1952

Question 20

Rhazes

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An Arab physician who began the use of animal gut for suture material

Question 21

Dorothea Dix

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Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Army in 1861

Question 22

Benjamin Franklin

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Invented bifocals for glasses

Question 23

Sigmund Freud

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Studies formed the basis for psychology & psychiatry