Medical Pioneer

Who is my medical pioneer ?

• Rosalid Franklin

• Linus Pauling

• Maurie Wilkins

• Francis Crick

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When and where was Francis Crick born ?

• Paris ,France

• Northampton , England

• Bora Bora

• Peru

What was their main contribution to medicine ?

• smallpox vaccine

• penicillin

• devolopment of aspirin from willow bark

• double helix structure of DNA

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What problem or disease were they trying to solve ?

• the structure of DNA the genetic code

• blindness

• the Centeral Dogma of Molecular Biology

• missing limbs

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How did their discovery/innovation change medicine ?

• double helix structure of DNA

• aspirin

• penicillin

• smallpox vaccine

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What challenges did they face ?

• physics to biology

• race to discover double helix structure of DNA

• math

• research

Interesting fact about this person:

• did a backflip

• Francis Crick shared the Nobel Prize

• met Martin Luther King Jr.

• was Abraham Lincoln

Why do you think their work is important today ?

• Helped people

• made people jump

• got people married

• made people more flexible

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