SAS 013 FINAL

Question 1

Marry Mallon

Answer 1

“Typhoid Mary”

First known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in North America

Question 2

Orville and Wilbur Wright

Answer 2

Orville and Wilbur Wright, American inventors and aviation pioneers, achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled flight of an airplane

Question 3

Leland Stanford Senior and Junior

Answer 3

Founder of Stanford University

Question 4

Karl Joseph Eberth

Answer 4

discovery of the bacterium Salmonella typhi, the causative agent of typhoid fever.

Question 5

George Soper

Answer 5

discovering Mary Mallon, the first known asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever

Question 6

Sara Josephine Baker

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Baker also invented an infant formula made out of water, calcium carbonate, lactose, and cow milk.

Question 7

Princess Diana

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her support for heart research and her work to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and landmines.

established and led fundraising campaigns for AIDS research.

Question 8

Barack Obama

Answer 8

climate change
clean power plan

Question 9

Nina Pham

Answer 9

She was one of the first healthcare workers in the U.S. to contract Ebola while treating a patient

Question 10

Daniel Danielssen

Answer 10

Study and treatment of leprosy.

Hereditary theory of leprosy which is false

Question 11

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen

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discovered the bacterium that causes leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae

Question 12

Stanley Stein

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established the newspaper The Star after he became blind.
Issues related to leprosy

Question 13

Guy Henry Faget

Answer 13

director of the Carville leprosarium and his pioneering use of sulfanomides in leprosy treatment

Question 14

Ted J. Kaptchuk

Answer 14

a multi-disciplinary investigation of placebo effects

Question 15

Peter Buxtun

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whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

Question 16

Jean Heller

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investigative journalist, exposing the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Question 17

President William J. Clinton

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Human Genome Project

Question 18

Robin Warren

Answer 18

discovered the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

Question 19

Barry Marshall

Answer 19

the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease

Question 20

David P. Strachan

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Founder member of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC)

Question 21

Graham Rook

Answer 21

The “old friends” hypothesis is a theory that proposes that humans have evolved with certain microbes, and that early exposure to these microbes is important for the development of a healthy immune system

Question 22

Linus Pauling

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pioneering work on the nature of chemical bonds

Question 23

Edward Jenner

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discovery of the smallpox vaccine

Question 24

James Phipps

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first person to receive the cowpox vaccine

Question 25

Sarah Nelms

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focuses on the issue of plastic pollution within marine and coastal environments, and its impacts on marine vertebrates such as turtles, seabirds and marine mammals.

Question 26

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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public health, national security, and economic recovery

Question 27

Jonas Salk

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developing the first safe and effective polio vaccine

Question 28

Albert Sabin

Answer 28

the development of the oral polio vaccine

Question 29

Alexandre Yersin

Answer 29

discovered the bacterium responsible for the plague

Question 30

Kitasato Shibasaburo

Answer 30

discovery of the infectious agent of the plague

Question 31

President Woodrow Wilson

Answer 31

World War I and Technological Innovation