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WorksheetsScience Week Quiz on Famous Scientists
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which scientist was famous for discovering gravity?
Stephen Hawking
Isaac Newton
Mr Dixon
Albert Einstein
Which famous scientist put forward the theory of natural selection in his famous book, 'On the Origin of Species'
Gregor Mendel
Dr Bradburn
Charles Darwin
Richard Dawkins
Which famous British scientist developed the first microscope and was the first person to coin the term 'cell'
Mrs Dowd
Marie Curie
Alexander Fleming
Robert Hooke
Which famous scientist discovered radioactivity which tragically cost them their life.
Marie Curie
Lisa Meitner
Rosalind Franklin
Mrs Cohen
Which famous Phsycist wrote the ground breaking 'A brief history of time' which to date has sold more than 10 million copies.
Mr Millington
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Alan Turing
Which scientist invented the first telescope to study the surface of the moon and later went on to discover the moons of Jupiter
Galileo
Charles Darwin
Dr Hughes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Which famous scientist is credited with arranging the elements into what is now known as the Periodic Table
Mendeleev
Mrs Chelton
Lavoisier
Marie Curie
Which famous scientist was the first to investigate genetics by experimenting on pea plants
David Attenborough
Mr Harwood
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
Which famous British scientist won a nobel prize for discovering the structure of DNA
John Dalton
Earnest Rutherford
Mr Hutchinson
Francis Crick
Which famous scientist discovered the antibiotic penicillin entirely by chance when attempting to grow agar plates of bacteria.
Alexander Fleming
Leonardo Da Vinci
Richard Dawkins
Mrs Laird
