The skin of what type of animal is used to treat burns?
Fish skin, usually from Atlantic cod or Nile tilapia, has anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial properties that support healing of some wounds including burns and diabetic foot ulcers.
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- Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics?
“Wilhelm Röntgen won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering X-rays.”
Reference: The Nobel Prize
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Who discovered X-rays?
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays by accident in 1895.
Who turned penicillin into a usable medicine?
Howard Florey and Ernst Chain developed penicillin into a usable drug in the early 1940s, and they shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Alexander Fleming.