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Who was looking at very small particles under a microscope?
Curie Newton Edison Bell
Which smart man saw an apple fall from a tree?
Newton Einstein Darwin Galileo
Who made the first light bulb that gives light?
Edison Tesla Newton Galileo
Who took the first picture?
Niepce Edison Tesla Bell
Who discovered why things fall down?
Newton Einstein Curie Edison
Who discovered why rainbows are so beautifully coloured?
Newton Einstein Edison Tesla
Which smart man always wore the same grey shirt?
Einstein Newton Edison Tesla
Which man made the first thermometer?
Galileo Newton Einstein Tesla
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Who made the first steam train?
Stephenson Watt Fulton Trevithick
Which famous man had very weird hair and thought up things about light?
Albert Einstein Isaac Newton Thomas Edison Benjamin Franklin
Who made the first flying machine that could fly?
Wright brothers Santos-Dumont Langley Whitehead
Who figured out that plants make oxygen?
Priestley Lavoisier Scheele Cavendish
Which woman helped build the first computer?
Ada Lovelace Grace Hopper Hedy Lamarr Katherine Johnson
Which man could see bacteria with his microscope?
Leeuwenhoek Pasteur Koch Fleming
Which man made the first safe lift?
Elisha Otis Alexander Miles Frank Sprague Werner von Siemens
Which woman won two different Nobel prizes?
Marie Curie Linus Pauling John Bardeen Frederick Sanger
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Who made the first telescope to look at the stars?
Galileo Galilei Albert Einstein Marie Curie Isaac Newton
In which century did Isaac Newton live?
17th century 20th century 16th century 19th century
Which element did Marie Curie discover?
Radium Gold Silver Iron
What did Archimedes do when he took a bath?
He shouted "Eureka! He shouted "Help! He shouted "Hooray! He shouted "Found it!
What made Galileo to see the stars better?
A better telescope A large lamp A tall tower A large mirror
What is gravity according to Newton?
A force that pulls things down A force that pushes things up A force that makes things float A force that makes things disappear
What did Archimedes invent about water?
That water goes up when you step in That water is always cold That water is blue That water falls down
Which physicist was also an inventor of many things?
Leonardo da Vinci Albert Einstein Marie Curie Isaac Newton
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Who shouted "Eureka!" when he discovered Archimedes' law in his bath?
Archimedes Pythagoras Euclid Thales
Which female physicist discovered the element radium?
Marie Curie Rosalind Franklin Lise Meitner Dorothy Hodgkin
Who made the first successful plane?
Wright brothers Leonardo da Vinci Otto Lilienthal Alberto Santos-Dumont
Who devised the law that all objects fall equally fast?
Galileo Galilei Aristotle Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler
Which physicist is familiar with Ohm's law on electricity?
Georg Ohm Alessandro Volta André-Marie Ampère Michael Faraday
Who proved that the universe is expanding?
Edwin Hubble Georges Lemaître Alexander Friedmann Vesto Slipher
Which physicist invented the law of leverage?
Archimedes Leonardo da Vinci Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton
Which physicist discovered X-rays?
Wilhelm Röntgen Henri Becquerel Marie Curie Ernest Rutherford
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Who discovered that atoms have a nucleus?
Ernest Rutherford J.J. Thomson John Dalton Niels Bohr
Who came up with Charles's law on gas and temperature?
Jacques Charles Robert Boyle Joseph Gay-Lussac Amedeo Avogadro
Who discovered that the universe is expanding?
Edwin Hubble Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking Carl Sagan
Which physicist invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla Benjamin Franklin Alessandro Volta
Who was the first person to use a telescope to look at the stars?
Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Nicolaus Copernicus Tycho Brahe
Which physicist experimented with kites to study electricity?
Benjamin Franklin Thomas Edison Nikola Tesla Alessandro Volta
Which inventor made the first working AC motors?
Nikola Tesla Thomas Edison George Westinghouse Samuel Morse
Which physicist discovered Pluto?
Clyde Tombaugh Percival Lowell William Herschel Johann Galle
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Hans Bethe won the Nobel Prize for his explanation of which astronomical phenomenon?
How stars produce their energy The formation of black holes The expansion of the universe The formation of planets
Which physicist discovered X-rays by chance during experiments with a cathode ray tube?
Wilhelm Röntgen Marie Curie Henri Becquerel Ernest Rutherford
Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison had a famous scientific argument. What was this one about?
Alternating current versus direct current The invention of the light bulb Wireless communication The discovery of electricity
André Ampère's name lives on in the unit of current. What did he mainly investigate?
The interaction between electric currents and magnetism The resistance of electrical conductors The speed of light The structure of atoms
Paul Dirac predicted the existence of which particle?
The positron The neutron The muon The neutrino
Ernest Rutherford discovered the structure of it:
Atom Elektron Proton Neutron
Lise Meitner is often overlooked in the discovery of nuclear fission. Why didn't she win a Nobel prize?
She was excluded because she was a woman and Jewish She was still too young She had not published the discovery She did not work on the discovery
Which physicist proposed the planetary model of the atom?
Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr J.J. Thomson John Dalton
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Which physicist developed the theory of black holes?
Karl Schwarzschild Stephen Hawking John Wheeler Roger Penrose
Which physicist discovered the law of wave interference?
Thomas Young Christiaan Huygens Augustin-Jean Fresnel Joseph Fraunhofer
Which physicist formulated the law of conservation of parity?
Eugene Wigner Tsung-Dao Lee Chen-Ning Yang Emmy Noether
Who discovered the relationship between temperature and average kinetic energy of gas particles?
Ludwig Boltzmann James Maxwell Rudolf Clausius Josiah Gibbs
Which physicist proved that mass and energy are interchangeable?
Albert Einstein Max Planck Werner Heisenberg Niels Bohr
Which physicist devised the theory of Brownian motion?
Albert Einstein Robert Brown Ludwig Boltzmann Jean Perrin
Which physicist devised the principle that no two electrons in an atom can have the same quantum state?
Wolfgang Pauli Werner Heisenberg Paul Dirac Erwin Schrödinger
Which physicist formulated the law of black body radiation?
Max Planck Wilhelm Wien Josef Stefan Gustav Kirchhoff
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