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Scientists

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Antoine Lavoisier

2.

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Louis Pasteur

3.

Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?

a)

Ernest Rutherford

b)

Galileo Galilei

c)

James Clerk Maxwell

d)

Gregor Mendel

4.

Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Rosalind Franklin

5.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

6.

Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Charles Darwin

7.

Which German chemist discovered nuclear fission and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944?

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Michael Faraday

8.

Which Serbian-American is known for his contributions to the design of the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Louis Pasteur

d)

Dmitri Mendeleev

9.

Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?

a)

James Prescott Joule

b)

James Watson

c)

James Watt

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

10.

Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry?

a)

Francis Crick

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Charles Darwin

11.

The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___

a)

Penicillin

b)

Phlogiston

c)

Aspirin

d)

Amoxicillin

12.

Which Russian chemist is commonly considered to be the developer of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?

a)

Nikolay Basov

b)

Pavel Cherenkov

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Dmitri Mendeleev

13.

Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Louis Pasteur

14.

Gregor Mendel's experiments established many of the rules of heredity. Which plant did he predominantly use?

a)

Peas

b)

Beans

c)

Broccoli

d)

Potatos

15.

Which New Zealand-born British physicist conducted research that led to the first "splitting" of the atom in 1917?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Ernest Rutherford

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Michael Faraday

16.

Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons in atoms jump from one orbit to another?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Otto Hahn

c)

James Watson

d)

Nikola Tesla

17.

Which X-ray crystallographer made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Barbara McClintock

18.

Which British molecular biologist is most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?

a)

Otto Hahn

b)

Francis Crick

c)

Michael Faraday

d)

Alexander Fleming

19.

Which American molecular biologist is best known for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Linus Pauling

c)

Enrico Fermi

d)

James Watson

20.

Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Ernest Rutherford