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- Who developed the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography ?
1.William Einthoven
2.Godfrey Hounsfield
3.Rene Laennec
4.Ian Doanld
5.None of theseAnswer – 2.Godfrey Hounsfield
Explanation :
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical enginee rwho shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT) - Who discovered the antibiotic substance benzyl penicillin ?
1.Alexander Wood
2.A.Laveran
3.W.Roentgen
4 Alexander Fleming
5.None of theseAnswer – 4 Alexander Fleming
Explanation :
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist. His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance benzyl penicillin (Penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928. - Who is called as ‘Father of Antiseptic Surgery’ ?
1.W.J.Kolf
2.Robert Koch
3.Joseph Lister
4.Ian Donald
5.None of theseAnswer – 3.Joseph Lister
Explanation :
Joseph Lister did not discover a new drug but he did make the like between lack of cleanliness in hospitals and deaths after operations. For this reason, he is known as the ‘Father of Antiseptic Surgery’. - Felix Hoffmann credited with synthesizing ………………..
1.Aspirin
2.Antiseptic
3.Antibiotic
4.All of these
5.None of theseAnswer – 1.Aspirin
Explanation :
Felix Hoffmann was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of “heroin”. He is also credited with synthesizing aspirin, though whether he did this under his own initiative or under the instruction of Arthur Eichengrün is highly contested. - Which Vaccine was developed by Edward Jennerin 1798 ?
1.Cholera
2.Smallpox
3.Tetanus
4.TB
5.None of theseAnswer – 2.Smallpox
Explanation :
Smallpox vaccine, the first successful vaccine to be developed was introduced by Edward Jenner in 1798. - Who developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies ?
1.Louis Pasteur
2.Edward Jenner
3.Robert Koch
4.John P. Merril
5.None of theseAnswer – 1.Louis Pasteur
Explanation :
Louis Pasteur ,French chemist and microbiologist who was one of the most important founders of medical microbiology developed vaccines against anthrax and rabies. - Jonas E. Salk developed the which Vaccine ?
1.Rabies
2.Typhus
3.Polio
4.TB
5.None of theseAnswer – 3.Polio
Explanation :
Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful polio vaccine. - Who developed a vaccine against tuberculosis ?
1.Albert Calmette
2 John P. Merril
3.Robert Koch
4.Edward Jenner
5.None of theseAnswer – 1.Albert Calmette
Explanation :
Léon Charles Albert Calmette was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist . He develop a vaccine against tuberculosis with Camille Guerin - Who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus ?
1.John Logie Baird
2.Louis Pasteur
3.Charles Nicolle
4.D.Bushnell
5.None of theseAnswer – 3.Charles Nicolle
Explanation :
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus - Who discovered the blood circulation ?
1.K.Lansteiner
2.J.B.Dunlop
3.K.C.Gillette
4.William Harvey
5.None of theseAnswer – 4.William Harvey
Explanation :
William Harvey discovered that the heart’s four valves permitted flow of blood in one direction only from the right ventricle to the lungs, back to the left ventricle, and from there to the aorta
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