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Q.1
Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize in medicine. What year was it awarded?
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1889
1901
1930
Q.2
He earned a doctorate. In which field?
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Ophthalmology
Chemistry
Physics
Q.3
True or false. One of von Behring’s collaborators was Japanese bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, who made significant contributions to vaccine science.
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True
False
Q.4
He founded Behring-Werke in this location, where today CSL continues to have a strong presence in research and development.
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Bern, Switzerland
Marburg, Germany
Vienna, Austria
Q.5
Derek Linton, von Behring’s biographer, wrote that the scientist was “inundated with letters of gratitude from parents of children rescued from death by serum therapy.” Which childhood disease was von Behring trying to prevent?
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Pertussis (whooping cough)
Smallpox
Diphtheria
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