WorksheetsScientists
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 14mins
Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Antoine Lavoisier
Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?
Antoine Lavoisier
Michael Faraday
Dmitri Mendeleev
Louis Pasteur
Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?
Ernest Rutherford
Galileo Galilei
James Clerk Maxwell
Gregor Mendel
Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Marie Curie
Otto Hahn
Lise Meitner
Rosalind Franklin
Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Niels Bohr
Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Gregor Mendel
Charles Darwin
Which German chemist discovered nuclear fission and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944?
Albert Einstein
Otto Hahn
Antoine Lavoisier
Michael Faraday
Which Serbian-American is known for his contributions to the design of the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Louis Pasteur
Dmitri Mendeleev
Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?
James Prescott Joule
James Watson
James Watt
James Clerk Maxwell
Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry?
Francis Crick
Michael Faraday
Alexander Fleming
Charles Darwin
The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___
Penicillin
Phlogiston
Aspirin
Amoxicillin
Which Russian chemist is commonly considered to be the developer of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?
Nikolay Basov
Pavel Cherenkov
Antoine Lavoisier
Dmitri Mendeleev
Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?
Blaise Pascal
Dmitri Mendeleev
Antoine Lavoisier
Louis Pasteur
Gregor Mendel's experiments established many of the rules of heredity. Which plant did he predominantly use?
Peas
Beans
Broccoli
Potatos
Which New Zealand-born British physicist conducted research that led to the first "splitting" of the atom in 1917?
Niels Bohr
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons in atoms jump from one orbit to another?
Niels Bohr
Otto Hahn
James Watson
Nikola Tesla
Which X-ray crystallographer made contributions to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA?
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Lise Meitner
Barbara McClintock
Which British molecular biologist is most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
Otto Hahn
Francis Crick
Michael Faraday
Alexander Fleming
Which American molecular biologist is best known for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
Charles Darwin
Linus Pauling
Enrico Fermi
James Watson
Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?
Stephen Hawking
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
