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Scientists and Inventors
These human inventions changed the world and transformed life on earth.
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Last updated: February 14, 2021
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1.
Which scientist is the founder of the quantum theory?
Ernest Rutherford
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Albert Einstein
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Max Born
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Max Planck
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2.
Niels Bohr is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of atomic structure
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Theory of relativity
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Theory of subconscious
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Theory of gravity
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3.
Who invented the light bulb in 1883?
Thomas Edison
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Karl Benz
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Walter Hunt
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4.
Who invented the railway locomotive in 1814?
Samuel Morse
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Alessandro Volta
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George Stephenson
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Henry Ford
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5.
Which physician-scientist was recognized for discovering penicillin in 1928?
Louis Pasteur
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Pierre Curie
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Ernest Rutherford
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Alexander Fleming
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6.
Which physicist brought the theories of gravity and the basic laws of motion?
Albert Einstein
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Richard Feynman
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Isaac Newton
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Michael Faraday
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7.
Albert Einstein is most famous for which of the following theories?
Theory of evolution
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Theory of relativity
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Theory of dark matter
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Theory of gravity
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8.
Who did the Catholic Church sentence to prison because he said that Earth orbited the Sun?
Francesco Petrarch
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Galileo Galilei
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Which scientist first said that the Sun was the center of the universe and that the Earth and the planets orbited the Sun?
Leonardo da Vinci
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Evangelista Torricelli
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Isaac Newton
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Which scientist improved the telescope and constructed the first one that could be used to observe the planets?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Galileo Galilei
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Tycho Brahe
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Johannes Kepler
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11.
Who is the first female Nobel Prize winner?
Selma Lagerlöf
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Marie Curie
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Bertha von Suttner
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Mother Teresa
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12.
What invention is most associated with Johannes Gutenberg?
Compass
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Light bulb
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Telegraph machine
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Printing press
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13.
What was the name of the famous scientist Röntgen who invented X-rays?
Wolfgang
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Conrad
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Thomas
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Wilhelm
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Who first stated that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Albert Einstein
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Isaac Newton
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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Georg Ohm
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Who developed the earliest effective vaccine against rabies?
Louis Pasteur
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Maria Curie
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Alexander Fleming
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Robert Koch
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16.
Who was Serbian scientist Mileva Maric married to?
Mihajlo Pupin
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Albert Einstein
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Max Planck
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Nikola Tesla
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What did the founder of the Nobel Prize invent?
Typewriter
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Dynamite
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Ballpoint pen
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Microscope
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18.
Which inventor, scientist, and engineer is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
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James Naismith
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Benjamin Franklin
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Thomas Edison
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Who invented the first battery?
Nikola Tesla
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James Watt
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Alessandro Volta
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Michael Faraday
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20.
Who discovered the periodic table?
John Dalton
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Linus Pauling
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Jöns Jacob Berzelius
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Dmitri Mendeleev
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21.
Who invented the dots and dashes code for sending messages?
Helen Keller
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Louis Braille
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George Orwell
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Samuel Morse
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Edmund Jenner is responsible for saving countless lives thanks to his invention. What was it?
Seat belt
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Vaccine
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Lifeboat
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Parachute
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