Rosalind Franklin
What is Rosalind Franklin known for?
Discovering the structure of DNA.
What is Florence Nightingale known for?
Founder of modern nursing.
What is Virginia Apgar known for?
Creating a test used to check newborn babies’ health right after birth.
What is Patricia Bath known for?
Inventing a device to help restore vision in cataract patients.
What is Tu Youyou known for?
Discovered a drug used to treat malaria.
Franklin used this technique to study DNA structure.
What is X-ray crystallography?
Nightingale improved hospital conditions during this war.
What is the Crimean War?
The Apgar Score is usually given to babies at 1 and 5 minutes after this event.
What is birth?
Bath specialized in this field of medicine focused on the eyes.
What is ophthalmology?
Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin to treat this mosquito-borne disease.
What is malaria?
The famous image Franklin produced that helped reveal DNA’s shape was called this.
What is Photo 51?
Nightingale's sanitation improvements greatly reduced deaths among these patients.
Who are wounded soldiers/patients?
The Apgar Score measures breathing, heart rate, muscle tone, reflexes, and this physical trait.
What is skin color?
Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe to treat this common eye condition that clouds vision.
What are cataracts?
Tu Youyou won this major international science award in 2015.
What is the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
Franklin’s work helped scientists understand how this molecule carriers genetic information.
What is the DNA?
She also used statistics and charts to improve hospital health care practices.
What are statistics/data charts?
Apgar worked in this medical specialty that focuses on pain control during surgery.
What is anesthesiology?
Patricia Bath became the first African American woman doctor to receive this for a medical invention.
What is a patent?
Tu Youyou's discovery was inspired partly by this country's traditional medicine
What is China?
Before her DNA work, Franklin spent WWII in London studying the physical structure of this fossil fuel to help create better filters for British gas masks.
What is coal?
The hospital Nightingale worked in during the Crimean War was located in this city.
What is Istanbul (Scutari)?
The Apgar Score helps doctors quickly determine if a newborn needs this type of attention.
What is medical attention/emergency care?
Bath also promoted "community ophthalmology," meaning equal access to this type of care.
What is eye care/vision care?
Artemisinin has helped save millions of lives by treating this disease worldwide.
What is malaria?