Famous Irish Scientists Quiz

Which Irish scientist is known for creating a scale to measure wind force, now commonly used in meteorology?

• JD Bernal

• Francis Beaufort

• Robert Boyle

• John Tyndall

Who is credited with the discovery of pulsars, a type of neutron star, in 1967?

• Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Denis Parsons Burkitt

• George Francis Fitzgerald

• William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)

Which scientist is known for his work on the theory of elasticity and the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature?

• John Joly

• William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)

• John Tyndall

• Francis Beaufort

Robert Boyle is best known for his work in which field of science?

• Biology

• Chemistry

• Physics

• Astronomy

What is the name of the law that describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas at constant temperature, formulated by Robert Boyle?

• Bernal's Law

• Boyle's Law

• Kelvin's Law

• Tyndall's Law

Which scientist is known for his pioneering work in X-ray crystallography, which helped in understanding the structure of complex molecules?

• JD Bernal

• John Joly

• George Francis Fitzgerald

• Denis Parsons Burkitt

Who proposed the concept of the Fitzgerald contraction, which is a precursor to the theory of relativity?

• John Tyndall

• George Francis Fitzgerald

• Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• Robert Boyle

Denis Parsons Burkitt is best known for his discovery of a type of cancer named after him. What is it called?

• Burkitt's Lymphoma

• Burkitt's Sarcoma

• Burkitt's Carcinoma

• Burkitt's Melanoma

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John Tyndall is famous for explaining why the sky is blue. What is this phenomenon called?

• Tyndall Effect

• Boyle Effect

• Kelvin Effect

• Bernal Effect

Which scientist developed a method for determining the age of the Earth using radioactive decay?

• John Joly

• Francis Beaufort

• JD Bernal

• William Thompson (Lord Kelvin)