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Famous Chemists

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which model is this?
a)
Planetary
b)
Plum Pudding
c)
Nuclear
d)
solid sphere
2.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that you are uncertain of an element's what?
a)
location and speed
b)
location and ring
c)
direction and speed
d)
model and speed
3.
What did Planck work on?
a)
quantum theory
b)
nuclear chemistry
c)
uncertainty principle
d)
wave theory
4.
What is Democritus known for?
a)
atomos
b)
combining and separating atoms
c)
saying the atom is empty space
d)
saying electrons orbit on specific paths
5.
What is Bohr known for?
a)
atomos
b)
combining and separating atoms
c)
saying the atom is empty space
d)
saying electrons orbit on specific paths
6.

Which Scientist came up with the NUCLEAR model?

a)

Dalton & Democritus

b)

Rutherford

c)

Thompson& Milliken

d)

Heisenberg & De Broglie

7.
Who discovered the electron and when ?
a)
James Chadwick in 1897
b)
Rutherford in 1909
c)
JJ Thompson in 1897
d)
Marie Lavoisier in 1970
8.
Who discovered the Atomic Theory and when did they do it?
a)
Millikan in 1808
b)
John Dalton in 1790
c)
Democritus in 4th century BC
d)
John Dalton  in 1808
9.
Who discovered the nucleus and when ?
a)
James Chadwick in 1897
b)
Rutherford in 1909
c)
JJ Thompson in 1897
d)
Rutherford in 1911
10.
Who discovered the Law of Conservation of Mass and when?
a)
James Chadwick in 1897
b)
Lavoisier in 1790
c)
JJ Thompson in 1897
d)
Rutherford in 1911
11.
Who is considered to be the Father of Modern Chemistry?
a)
Dalton
b)
Democritus
c)
Lavoisier
d)
Chadwick
12.
Discovered elements changed as their protons increased. He rearranged the elements based on atomic number which fixed problems in the periodic table. 
a)
Johann Dobereiner
b)
John Newlands
c)
Dmitri Mendeleev
d)
Henry Moseley
13.

What makes Marie Curie different from other Nobel Prize winners?

4 lines
14.

What female Nobel Prize winner conducted research on radioactivity?

a)

Sandwich

b)

Tierra Guinn

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Isaac Newton

15.

Name the only woman who has been honoured with Nobel Prize twice in different areas?

a)

Gerti Cori

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Barbara McClintock

16.

This famous scientist is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays, gamma rays, electron beams and to destroy cancer cells.

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

Mary Anning

17.

To show that lightning was indeed electrical, this scientist flew a kite during a storm, to which he had attached a key. When the kite was struck by lightning, he felt electric sparks from the key.

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Leonardo da Vinci

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Benjamin Franklin

18.

Who discovered the vaccine for smallpox?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Charles Darwin

c)

Edward Jenner

d)

Stephen Hawkings

19.

Which two scientists were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics?

a)

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoslov

b)

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

c)

Caroline and William Herschel

d)

Francis Crick and James Dewey Watson

20.

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

a)

Penicillin

b)

Phlogiston

c)

Aspirin

d)

Amoxicillin

21.
______________ was another Greek philosopher and student of Plato.
a)
Aristotle
b)
Alexander the GREat
c)
Socrates
22.

Which two time Nobel Prize winner is credited with discovering Radium and doing significant research about radioactivity?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Wilhelm Rontgen

d)

Elizabeth Anderson

23.

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

24.

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

a)

Francis Crick

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Charles Darwin

25.

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

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Louis Pasteur

26.

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

27.

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

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