Science Week Quiz on Famous Scientists

Which scientist was famous for discovering gravity?

• Stephen Hawking

• Isaac Newton

• Mr Dixon

• Albert Einstein

Which famous scientist put forward the theory of natural selection in his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species'

• Gregor Mendel

• Dr Bradburn

• Charles Darwin

• Richard Dawkins

Which famous British scientist developed the first microscope and was the first person to coin the term 'cell'

• Mrs Dowd

• Marie Curie

• Alexander Fleming

• Robert Hooke

Which famous scientist discovered radioactivity which tragically cost them their life.

• Marie Curie

• Lisa Meitner

• Rosalind Franklin

• Mrs Cohen

Which famous Phsycist wrote the ground breaking 'A brief history of time' which to date has sold more than 10 million copies.

• Mr Millington

• Albert Einstein

• Stephen Hawking

• Alan Turing

Which scientist invented the first telescope to study the surface of the moon and later went on to discover the moons of Jupiter

• Galileo

• Charles Darwin

• Dr Hughes

• Leonardo Da Vinci

Which famous scientist is credited with arranging the elements into what is now known as the Periodic Table

• Mendeleev

• Mrs Chelton

• Lavoisier

• Marie Curie

Which famous scientist was the first to investigate genetics by experimenting on pea plants

• David Attenborough

• Mr Harwood

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

Which famous British scientist won a nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA

• John Dalton

• Earnest Rutherford

• Mr Hutchinson

• Francis Crick

Which famous scientist discovered the antibiotic penicillin entirely by chance when attempting to grow agar plates of bacteria.

• Alexander Fleming

• Leonardo Da Vinci

• Richard Dawkins

• Mrs Laird