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WorksheetsScientists of the World
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who wrote the three laws of motion?
a)
Copernicus
b)
Newton
c)
Ptolemy
d)
Hubble
2.
The ________ model, theorized by Ptolemy, describes a Universe with Earth in the center.
a)
Nebula
b)
Heliocentric
c)
Galaxy Model
d)
Geocentric
3.
Believed the best way to gain knowledge is through observation and experimentation of the natural world (scientific method).
a)
Frances Bacon
b)
Charles Darwin
4.
Used Photograph 51 to build a model of the double helix structure of DNA and were awarded the Noble Prize for their work.
a)
Maurice Wilkins and Linus Pauling
b)
Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish
c)
James Watson and Francis Crick
d)
Rosalind Franklin and Marie Curie
5.
A Russian chemist that arranged the then 63 elements by increasing atomic mass.
a)
Gregor Mendel
b)
Dmitri Mendeleev
6.
A global climate change and environmental activist.
a)
David Suzuki
b)
Jane Goodall
c)
Mary Anning
d)
Rachel Carson
7.
Well known for his work in optics, he is also known as 'Father of Modern Optics'.
a)
Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)
b)
Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna )
8.
Who invented dynamite?
a)
Alfred Nobel
b)
Immanuel Nobel
c)
Max Planck
d)
Aristotle
9.
Best known for his work regarding electricity and magnetism.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Michael Faraday
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Michio Kaku
10.
I was a member of Plato's Academy, and even was tutor to Alexander the Great.
a)
Aristotle
b)
Euclid
c)
Epicurus
d)
Socrates
11.
At 21, I was given 2 years to live. But I am still alive. 'A Brief History of Time'
a)
Stephen Hawking
b)
Stephen King
c)
Carl Sagan
d)
Richard Dawkins
12.
Though my father was a famous poet, I studied mathematics and am regarded as the first computer programmer.
a)
Ada Lovelace
b)
Charles Babbage
c)
Alan Turing
d)
Tim Berners-Lee
13.
I am the AC to Edison's DC, and though I fell into relative obscurity after my death, my reputation today is a true genius.
a)
Nikola Tesla
b)
Max Planck
14.
The first Indian scientist to receive a Nobel prize in Physics in 1930
a)
Vikram Sarabhai
b)
C. V. Raman
c)
J. C. Bose
d)
Shrinivasa Ramanujan
15.
I am the 'Missile man of India'
a)
Homi Bhabha
b)
A P J Abdul Kalam
c)
Vikram Sarabhai
d)
Prafulla Chandra Ray
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