Important people

Question 1

Father of Chemotherapy

Answer 1

Ehrlich

Question 2

Father of Microbiology

Answer 2

Hooke, Leeuwenhoek

Question 3

Discovered the first antibiotic

Answer 3

Fleming

Question 4

Described the first microorganism (it was fungus)

Answer 4

Hooke

Question 5

Using experiments on diseased silkworms, he presented the first clear evidence to support the germ theory of disease.

Answer 5

Pasteur

Question 6

First described “cellulae” in cork; discovery led to the formulation of the cell theory

Answer 6

hooke

Question 7

Developed the first vaccination by inoculating people with cowpox to produce immunity against smallpox; the father of immunology

Answer 7

Jenner

Question 8

Developed the agar plate method for culturing microbes

Answer 8

Koch

Question 9

Used a curved neck flask to finally disprove the theory of spontaneous generation

Answer 9

Pasteur

Question 10

Poured boiled chicken broth into a flask; microbes grew; concluded that spontaneous generation does occur

Answer 10

Needham

Question 11

Disproved theory of spontaneous generation for macroscopic organisms

Answer 11

Redi

Question 12

Developed anthrax and rabies vaccines

Answer 12

Pasteur

Question 13

Described the first bacteria

Answer 13

Leeuwenhoek

Question 14

Put broth in a flask, sealed it, and boiled it; though he had disproved spontaneous generation, but critiques said he had just proved that the process required air.

Answer 14

Spallanzani

Question 15

Discovered that childbed fever was due to doctors not washing their hands after performing autopsies

Answer 15

Semmelweiss

Question 16

First to develop antisepsis; treated wounds with bandages soaked in carbolic acid.

Answer 16

Lister

Question 17

Slave who brought the practice of “variolation” to the U.S from Africa; saved hundreds of lives in Boston during a smallpox outbreak in 1721

Answer 17

Onesimus

Question 18

Suggested Koch try using agar to thicken culture media

Answer 18

Frau hesse