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WorksheetsGuess the Scientist/Inventor Challenge
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3mins
An accountant for the Fleer Company in Philadelphia, who invented bubble gum and taught salesmen how to market it by blowing gooey pink bubbles.
Luca Pacioli
Johann Conrad Dippel
Walter Diemer
Cai Lun
Name the scientist.
Charles F. Richter
Thomas Edison
James Chadwick
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Discover that a star having a mass more than 1.44 times that of the Sun does not form a white dwarf but instead continues to collapse, blows off its gaseous envelope in a supernova explosion, and becomes a neutron star.
Satyendra Nath Bose
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Homi J Bhaba
Pierre Curie
Name the scientist.
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An American biologist well known for her writings on environmental pollution and the natural history of the sea.
Ada Lovelace
Mary Anning
Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie
Rachel Carson
Name the scientist.
(a)
Name the scientist.
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He proposed that black holes would emit subatomic particles until they eventually exploded. He also wrote best-selling books, the most famous of which was A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988).
Thomas Hertog
Don Page
Stephen Hawking
Louis Pasteur
A brilliant mathematician and scientist in the Han Dynasty. He invented the first known earthquake detector in 132 A.D.
Chang Heng
Su Song
Wang Zhen
Shen Kuo
He returned from a holiday to find mold growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mold seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mold produced a self-defense chemical that could kill bacteria.
Dr. Raymond Damadian
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Dr. Alexander Fleming
Dr. Hitesh Patel
Name the scientist.
Jan Ingenhousz
Willem Einthoven
Regnier de Graaf
Jan Swammerdam
A Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
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He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s, and for developing a mutation theory of evolution.
(a)
Name the scientist.
Georg Metius
Adrianne Metius
Georg Adriaanszoon
Adriaan Adriaanszoon
A Spanish inventor, best remembered for presenting her first design in 1778, the epicyclindrical machine for twining silk, developed alongside her brothers.
María del Carmen Betancourt y Molina
Julia Rodríguez-Maribona
María del Carmen Ortiz de Arce
Julia Montoussé Fargues
A Japanese molecular biologist known for research on unfolded protein response.
Makoto Kobayashi
Kazutoshi Mori
Syukuro Manabe
Ted Fujita
A Filipino horticulturist and is the reason why we have mangoes to eat every season rather than waiting all year.
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