Medical Discoveries and Milestones Quiz

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

Insulin was discovered in the year 1921.

Louis Pasteur discovered the vaccine for rabies.

Robert Koch discovered the bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The first successful human heart transplant was performed in 1967.

Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA.

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered the X-ray.

Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine for Polio.

The first successful vaccine developed by Edward Jenner is named Smallpox.

The medical term for the 'Pacemaker' is Artificial cardiac pacemaker.

Joseph Lister is known as the 'Father of Modern Surgery.'

William Harvey is credited with the discovery of the circulation of blood in the human body.

The first successful oral polio vaccine developed by Albert Sabin is named OPV.

The BCG vaccine is primarily used to prevent Tuberculosis.