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Scientists

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 3hrs 1mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

2.

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

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.

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

6.

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

a)

Francis Crick

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Charles Darwin

7.
Who invented the first light bulb?
a)
Aristotle
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Wright brothers
8.

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

9.

Who discovered that the universe expands.

a)

Marie curie

b)

Edwin Hubble

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Louis Pasteur

10.

Who is famous for there writings of the environmental pollution and the natural history of sea. She wrote a book about this. It was called silent spring.

a)

isaac Newton

b)

Galeleio galleli

c)

Rachel Carson

11.

Who discovered the iridium layer.

a)

Luis Alvarez

b)

Bill nye

c)

Stephen hawking

12.

Who defined planetary motion

a)

Kepler

b)

Marie curie

c)

Isaac newton

d)

Einstein

13.

Who discovered an enormous network of canals.

a)

Percival Lowell

b)

Michael faraday

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

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