A little history/geography quiz

[armin]

Hmmm 1923, he found a cure for polio

[CGM]

OK, while we're struggling with Scrap's question on missing links, I'll throw this one out...

What was the claim to fame of Canadian scientist Sir Frederick Banting, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1923?

Nope Armin, a polio cure is not the correct answer

[armin]

I figured it wasn't it was just a shot in the dark , not well read on medical history.

[CGM]

I figured it wasn't it was just a shot in the dark , not well read on medical history.

I'll give you a hint. It was a very significant discovery, that even today improves and extends the lives of millions of people around the world that suffer from a particular ailment. And this ailment is not a headache, or common cold, or allergy.

[Scrap]

Diabetis, help

[CGM]

Diabetis, help

That's close enough. Banting discovered insulin, and developed a process to mass produce it.

[Scrap]

What a wonderfull man, I use it . But it was a guess on the time scale.

[CGM]

Did you know it was Frederick Banting before this question?

[Andre]

Cool we are onto people and events.Try this dude for measure.

Born a (Serbian Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Austrian Empire, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen.

This man invented ways to harness AC current much to the disgust of Edison whom he worked for at the time and who thought dc current was the way forwards.

He discovered the xrays.
invented the first wireless radio.
later he went into the outer fields of study and experiments concerning health and claimed all sorts of things concerning frequencies: upsetting many in the process and becomming known as a nutcase for his troubles by some more protective of their own fields and a living genius by many others.

[armin]

nikolai tesla, kind of got fucked by history at first only lately getting the recognition due...

[Scrap]

CGM, no I didnt just knew the time scale was about right a good stab at it though

[Mikkel_K]

nikolai tesla, kind of got fucked by history at first only lately getting the recognition due...

Didnt he appear as a character in a movie lately? The Prestige, perhaps?

Remember him being played by David Bowie (!) - he came out as a complete freak.

[X]

What animal always kills the most humans every year in Africa (not counting the mosquito)?

[CGM]

What animal always kills the most humans every year in Africa (not counting the mosquito)?

Hippopotamus I think I read somewhere a while back.

[X]

Yes . spot on CGM!