Scientists Quiz

Who is the only British woman to win a science Nobel prize?

• Elsie Widdowson

• Marie Curie

• Rosalind Franklin

• Dorothy Hodgkin

Who invented ways to decode or 'sequence' both protein and DNA molecules?

• John Barden

• Fred Sanger

• Robert McCance

• Linus Pauling

Who is known as the father of vaccines?

• Stephen Hawking

• James Watt

• Edward Jenner

• Alan Turing

Which pair revolutionized the study of human nutrition?

• Edward Jenner and John Barden

• Rosalind Franklin and Alan Turing

• Elsie Widdowson and Robert McCance

• Dorothy Hodgkin and Frederick Sanger

Who was the first person to study the vaccination process with scientific rigour?

• Marie Curie

• Linus Pauling

• Fred Sanger

• Edward Jenner

Which scientist figured out the structure of insulin after 35 years of trying?

• Elsie Widdowson

• Frederick Sanger

• Dorothy Hodgkin

• Edward Jenner

Who developed the first accurate nutrient tables on which modern food labels are based?

• Elsie Widdowson

• Edward Jenner

• Fred Sanger

• Dorothy Hodgkin

Which scientist is credited with saving more lives than any other human?

• Elsie Widdowson

• Fred Sanger

• Dorothy Hodgkin

• Edward Jenner

Who was the first person to coin the term 'vaccination'?

• Edward Jenner

• Fred Sanger

• Linus Pauling

• Marie Curie

Which scientist was known for their pioneering work on X-ray crystallography?

• Dorothy Hodgkin

• Fred Sanger

• Edward Jenner

• Elsie Widdowson