The making of a Scientist

The making of a Scientist

by Sutha Ramesh

Multiple Choice

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Copernicus

• Sir C V Raman

• Benjamin Franklin

Multiple Choice

• Galileo Galilei Isaac

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Issac Newton

• Copernicus

Multiple Choice

• Ernest Rutherford

• Michael Faraday

• Stephen Hawking

• Benjamin Franklin

Multiple Choice

• Copernicus

• Issac Newton

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Albert Einstein

Multiple Choice

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Ernest Rutherford

• Benjamin Franklin

• Albert Einstein

Suggest two ways by which you feel scientific temperament can be developed in a child.

Read the etract and answer the questions given below:​

So he did and did he ever ! Beginning in Kindergarden, Ebright collected butterflies with the same determination that has marked all his activities. He also collected rocks, fossils, and coins. He became an eager astronomer, too. Sometimes star-gazing all night.

(a) Who is ‘he’ ?

(b) What more did he collect besides butterflies ?

(c) Find a word from the passage that means the same as ‘strong

will-power’.

(d) What did he do nights ?