Famous Medical Personalities Quiz: Doctors Who Changed History

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Medicine has advanced because of great minds who discovered, invented, and healed. It has seen some incredible minds that changed the way we live. From discovering germs to inventing vaccines, these names are legendary. Let’s see how well you know them! This quiz celebrates some of those legends.

Who created the smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine?

  • Louis Pasteur

  • Jonas Salk

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Edward Jenner

Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

  • Jonas Salk

  • Edward Jenner

  • Albert Sabin

  • Robert Koch

Who is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine?

  • Marie Curie

  • Rosalind Franklin

  • Gerty Cori

  • Barbara McClintock

Who is known as the “Father of Medicine”?

  • Galen

  • Avicenna

  • Vesalius

  • Hippocrates

Who is called the “Father of Modern Surgery”?

  • Andreas Vesalius

  • Ambroise Paré

  • Joseph Lister

  • William Harvey

Who developed antiseptic techniques in surgery?

  • Louis Pasteur

  • Joseph Lister

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Robert Koch

Who is credited with discovering tuberculosis bacteria?

  • Louis Pasteur

  • Robert Koch

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Joseph Lister

Who is known for the discovery of anesthesia in surgery?

  • Crawford Long

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Robert Koch

  • Joseph Lister

Who discovered penicillin, the first true antibiotic?

  • Louis Pasteur

  • Alexander Fleming

  • Edward Jenner

  • Robert Koch

Who first explained blood circulation in the body?

  • Vesalius

  • William Harvey

  • Edward Jenner

  • Hippocrates

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