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Physicist through History

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

2.

Whose work was in General Theory of Relativity and Quantum mechanics.

a)

Steven Hawking

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Louis Pasteur

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.

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

a)

Galileo Galilei

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Stephen Hawking

d)

Niels Bohr

6.

Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?

a)

Nikola Tesla

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Gregor Mendel

d)

Charles Darwin

7.

He created one of the essential physics

concepts, the centre of gravity. He discovered

the rules and laws of levers and pulleys that

allows moving heavy objects using small forces

possible. He was born about 287 BCE in Syracuse

on the island of Sicily.

a)

Albert Einstein

b)

Archimedes

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Michael Faraday

8.

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

9.

Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?

a)

James Prescott Joule

b)

James Watson

c)

James Watt

d)

James Clerk Maxwell

10.

Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism, electrochemistry and Faraday's Law ?

a)

Francis Crick

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Alexander Fleming

d)

Charles Darwin

11.

He studied the nature of heat and its relationship to mechanical work which led to the “law of conservation of energy".

a)

Nikolay Basov

b)

Pavel Cherenkov

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

James Prescott Joule

12.

Which English theoretical physicist authored The Theory of Everything, and A Brief History of Time?

a)

Stephen Hawking

b)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

c)

Albert Einstein

d)

Ernest Rutherford