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General Knowledge - Scientists

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German mathematical physicist famous for the theory of relativity is

  1. Issac Newton

  2. Max Planck

  3. Albert Einstein

  4. Galileo Galilee


Correct Option: C

A priest and botanist considered as the father of genetics is

  1. Sigmond Froyd

  2. Galen

  3. Alexander Fleming

  4. Gregor Mendel


Correct Option: D

Who is best known as the inventor of logarithms?

  1. Gottfried Leibniz

  2. Fibonacci

  3. Euclid

  4. John Napier


Correct Option: D

Ancient Greek mathematician who defined the value of II (Pi) is

  1. Euclid

  2. Archimedes

  3. Pythagoras

  4. Aristotle


Correct Option: B

The Prussian born US physicist known as the first American to win a Nobel prize for his measurements of the speed of light

  1. Thomas Young

  2. Max Planck

  3. Albert Michelson

  4. Albert Einstein


Correct Option: C

The German mathematician and philosopher who developed a method of computation called calculus is

  1. Gottfried Leibniz

  2. Archimedes

  3. Pythagoras

  4. Fibonacci


Correct Option: A

Italian physicist who created the first electric cell is

  1. Ernico Fermi

  2. Graham Bell

  3. Alessandro Volta

  4. Michael Faraday


Correct Option: C

English mathematician and physicist who discovered the law of gravity is

  1. Galileo galilee

  2. Johannes Kepler

  3. Issac Newton

  4. Aristotle


Correct Option: C

New Zealand born British physicist whose most significant discovery was the nature of the structure of atom.

  1. Neil Bohr

  2. J. J. Thomson

  3. James Chadwick

  4. Earnest Rutherford


Correct Option: D

Who discovered natural radioactivity ?

  1. Madam Curie

  2. Pierre Curie

  3. Henry Becquerel

  4. William Ramsay


Correct Option: C

Italian born US physicist who produced the first controlled nuclear chain reaction.

  1. Ernico Fermi

  2. Alfred Nobel

  3. Joseph Lister

  4. Ivan Pavlov


Correct Option: A

Who developed life saving vaccines for treating rabbies?

  1. Louis Pasteur

  2. Alexander Fleming

  3. Gregor Mendel

  4. Ronald Ross


Correct Option: A

First and only person to have honored with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences is

  1. Alfred Nobel

  2. Pierre Curie

  3. Marie Curie

  4. C V Raman


Correct Option: C

The English physicist famous for his discovery of the first "sub atomic particle" the electron

  1. Rutherford

  2. Chadwick

  3. J J Thomson

  4. . Niel Bohr


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). 

A German theoretical physicist known as the father of quantum theory is

  1. Maxwell

  2. Max Planck

  3. Herman Helmholtz

  4. Albert Einstein


Correct Option: B

The French chemist who is known as the father of modern chemistry is

  1. Mendeleyev

  2. Humphrey Davy

  3. Joseph priestly

  4. Antoine Lavoisier


Correct Option: D

The English chemist who discovered the laughing gas (nitrous oxide) is

  1. Humphrey Davy

  2. Antonie Lavosier

  3. Blaise Pascal

  4. Werner Heisenberg


Correct Option: A

Who discovered the Krebs cycle, the process by which body cells convert food into energy?

  1. Hans Krebs

  2. Sigmond Froyd

  3. Edward Jenner

  4. Emil Fischer


Correct Option: A

Russian chemist regarded as the father of the periodic table of chemical elements is

  1. John Dalton

  2. Antoine Lavoisier

  3. Dmitry Mendeleyev

  4. Joseph priestly


Correct Option: C

British chemist who discovered oxygen is

  1. Humphrey Davy

  2. Antonie Lavosier

  3. Joseph priestly

  4. Henry Cavendish


Correct Option: C

Who discovered penicillin, the first antibiotic used to treat diseases?

  1. Gregor Mendel

  2. Alexander Fleming

  3. Joseph Lister

  4. Ronald Ross


Correct Option: B

British naturalist who put forwarded the theory of evolution in his famous book Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection is

  1. Edward Salk

  2. Edward Jenner

  3. Charles Darwin

  4. Ronald Ross


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Correct answer is (3). 

The English chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis is

  1. Alessandro Volta

  2. Michel Faraday

  3. Hoffmann

  4. Humphry Davy


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct answer is (2). 

Scientist who discovered X-ray?

  1. Marie Curie

  2. Wilhelm Roentgen

  3. Helmholtz

  4. David Hilbert


Correct Option: B

Scientist known for his theory of uncertainty is

  1. Neil Bohr

  2. Rutherford

  3. John Dalton

  4. Werner Heisenberg


Correct Option: D
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