Fun Quiz
Scientists and Their Discoveries
RIDDHI ARYA
1. Born on 28 Aug 1919, an
English electrical engineer
who shared the 1979 Nobel
Prize for Physiology or
Medicine with Allan
McLeod Cormack for
developing the diagnostic
technique of X-ray computed
tomography (CT).
(a) Rosalyn S Yalow
(b) Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
(c) Hans Berger
(d) Robert A. Good
4. An American surgeon,
invented the first artificial
heart valve in the early
1950s, made significant
contributions to the
development of the modern
heart-lung machine.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Alexander S. Wiener
Einthoven
Charles A. Hufnagel
5. A German physicist,
produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation in
a wavelength range today
known as X-rays, an
achievement that earned him
the first Nobel Prize in
Physics in 1901.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
6. Austrian biologist and
physician, famous for the
modern system of
classification of blood
groups, identified the
presence of agglutinins in the
blood, Rh factor and
poliovirus.
(a) Hermann Emil Fischer
(b) Karl Landsteiner
(c) Dr. Norman Shumway
(d) Alexander Wiener
2. An English physician who described systemic
circulation correctly and in exact detail. He
discovered the properties of blood being pumped
around the body by the heart.
(a) William Harvey
(c) Thomas Harvey
(b) William Beaumont
(d) Erwin Popper
3. The first humanto-human heart
transplant was
performed by this
eminent cardiac
surgeon at Groote
Schuur Hospital in
South Africa on 3rd
December 1967.
(a) Dr. Norman
Shumway
(b) Dr. Denton Cooley
(c) Dr. Christiaan
Barnard
(d) Dr. Christian Cabrol
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Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Thomas Harvey
Jules Gonin
7. Dutch doctor and
physiologist. He invented
the first practical
electrocardiogram (ECG or
EKG) in 1903 and received
the Nobel Prize in Medicine
in 1924 for it.
(a) Willem Einthoven
(b) Erwin Popper
(c) Ronald Ross
(d) Hans Berger
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12. An English scientist,
widely credited as pioneer
of smallpox vaccine, and is
sometimes referred to as
the Father of Immunology.
(a) Edward Jenner
(b) Daniel Ludlow
(c) John Hunter
(d) William Osler
8. An ophthalmologist,
born in Vienna, Austria,
who performed the first
successful human organ
transplant i.e. cornea on
7 December 1905.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Edward Jenner
Thomas E. Starzl
Dr. P. Battaerd
Eduard Konrad
Zirm
13. An American chemist who
shared the Nobel Prize in
Medicine or Physiology in
2003 with another eminent
scientist for the development
of Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI).
(a) Daniel Ludlow
(b) Paul Lauterbur
(c) Felix Bloch
(d) Edward Purcell
9. Born in America and
surgeon in U.S. Army. He is
also known as Father of
Gastric physiology
following his research on
human digestion.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
14. An American physician,
awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine
with Joseph E. Murray for
the development of cell and
organ transplantation,
developed bone marrow
transplantation as a
treatment of luekemia.
Alexis Martin
Truman Powell
William Beaumont
Charles Darwin
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
10. A German known as the
first to record
electroencephalogram (EEG)
from human subjects,
discovered the rhythmic
Alpha brain waves.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
R.L. Clark
Fred Hutchinson
Robert A. Good
E. Donnall Thomas
15. An ophthalmologist
and a pioneer in cataract
surgery, developed
phacoemulsification
technique that has
become today’s standard.
Hans Berger
Oskar Vogt
Korbinian Brodmann
Otto Ludwig Bingswanger
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
11. Born in Varanasi and was a
very reputed orthopedic surgeon.
With Ram Chandra Sharma he
co-invented the magical Jaipur
Foot, an inexpensive and
flexible artificial limb.
(a) Lalji Singh
(b) Birbal Sahni
(c) P.K. Sethi
(d) Nitya Anand
Charles D. Kelman
Marshall M Parks
Ioannis Pallikaris
Jules Gonin
ANSWERS:
1.
2.
3.
4.
b
a
c
d
5.
6.
7.
8.
b
b
a
d
9. c
10. a
11. c
12. a
13. b
14. d
15. a
Contributed by Ms Riddhi Arya, 2/365, Vishnu Path, Vishnu Puri, Aligarh,
Uttar Ptradesh
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