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Who made a scope to see very far?
Galileo Newton Darwin Tesla
Which inventor made sounds in a box?
Edison Tesla Newton Darwin
Who saw that little ball moving very fast?
Einstein Newton Darwin Tesla
Who made music with bubbles and water?
Tesla Edison Newton Darwin
Who made the first plane?
Wright brothers Tesla Edison Newton
Which inventor played with lightning and electricity?
Tesla Darwin Curie Pasteur
Which man played with lightning?
Tesla Pasteur Fleming Edison
Which man was looking at very small particles?
Rutherford Darwin Galilei Pasteur
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Which scientist figured out that everything is made of tiny particles?
Dalton Lavoisier Priestley Boyle
What was Copernicus looking at in the sky?
To the sun and planets To birds To clouds To aircraft
Who discovered that the earth is very old?
Lyell Darwin Newton Galileo
Which scientist created the first barometer?
Torricelli Pascal Boyle Galileo
Which scientist figured out how heredity works?
Mendel Darwin Watson Crick
What did Nikola Tesla do with electricity?
He made lightning flashes He made ice creams He made flowers He made music
What was Rosalind Franklin researching?
How our bodies work inside How flowers grow How it rains How cats meow
Who drew the first plane?
Da Vinci Wright brothers Edison Tesla
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Who formulated the laws of thermodynamics?
Rudolf Clausius James Maxwell Ludwig Boltzmann Sadi Carnot
Which scientist developed quantum mechanics and won the Nobel Prize in 1932?
Werner Heisenberg Niels Bohr Max Planck Erwin Schrödinger
Who discovered the law of conservation of energy?
Julius Mayer James Joule Hermann von Helmholtz Rudolf Clausius
Who discovered the electron?
J.J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr Robert Millikan
Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA along with Watson?
Francis Crick Maurice Wilkins Linus Pauling Erwin Chargaff
Who developed the theory of natural selection at the same time as Darwin?
Alfred Russel Wallace Thomas Huxley Herbert Spencer Asa Gray
Which scientist developed medicine as a science and is called the 'father of medicine'?
Hippocrates Galenus Avicenna Paracelsus
Which scientist discovered the law of gravity?
Isaac Newton Albert Einstein Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler
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Which scientist discovered the law of mass-energy equivalence (E=mc²)?
Albert Einstein Max Planck Werner Heisenberg Niels Bohr
Who developed the first working laser?
Theodore Maiman Charles Townes Arthur Schawlow Gordon Gould
Which scientist developed statistical mechanics?
Ludwig Boltzmann James Clerk Maxwell Rudolf Clausius Josiah Willard Gibbs
Which computer scientist developed the World Wide Web at CERN?
Tim Berners-Lee Vint Cerf Robert Kahn Marc Andreessen
Which chemist discovered the elements polonium and radium?
Marie Curie Lise Meitner Dorothy Hodgkin Irène Joliot-Curie
Which climate scientist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 along with Al Gore?
Rajendra Pachauri (on behalf of IPCC) James Hansen Michael Mann Gavin Schmidt
Which astronomer discovered that the universe is expanding through observation of red shift?
Edwin Hubble Vesto Slipher Henrietta Leavitt Georges Lemaître
Which physicist developed quantum field theory and won the Nobel Prize for QED?
Richard Feynman Julian Schwinger Sin-Itiro Tomonaga Freeman Dyson
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Stephen Hawking was mainly known for his work in the field of:
Black holes and cosmology Quantum mechanics and particle physics Relativity theory and time travel Astrophysics and planetary motion
Who is considered the founder of modern chemistry and established the conservation of mass?
Antoine Lavoisier John Dalton Dmitri Mendeleev Robert Boyle
Watson and Crick are famous for their discovery of the structure of DNA. Which shape best describes this structure?
Double helix Single spiral Folded ribbon Triple braid
Who discovered the law of partial pressures in gas mixtures?
John Dalton Robert Boyle Jacques Charles Joseph Gay-Lussac
Which scientist developed the first vaccine against smallpox?
Edward Jenner Louis Pasteur Robert Koch Emil von Behring
Who formulated the equations describing electricity and magnetism?
James Clerk Maxwell Michael Faraday Heinrich Hertz André-Marie Ampère
Who discovered the law of electromagnetic induction?
Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Heinrich Hertz André-Marie Ampère
Who discovered the electron?
J.J. Thomson Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr James Chadwick
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