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Beside contact lenses, Otto Wichterle is famous for inventing
polystyrene
nylon
Merkur toys
synthetic fibre called silon
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Whose experiment is illustrated?
Schrodinger´s
Ohm´s
Edison´s
Guttenberg´s
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Which one is NOT correct?
Křižík - arc lamp
Jánský - AB0 blood type system
Presl - propeller
Heyrovský - polarography
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1642 - 1727.
Principia
formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Rudolf Virchow
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
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There are over 700 patents creditted to Tesla. How many are there on Edison´s name?
529
712
1516
2332
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1571 - 1630. German mathematician, astronomer. Best known for laws of planetary motion.
Erwin Schrodinger
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
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Which is connected to I.P. Pavlov
cats
classical conditioning
dogs
Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
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Only one Czech scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Who?
Otto Wichterle
Jaroslav Heyrovský
Jan Jánský
František Běhounek
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1887 – 1961. Austrian physicist in the field of quantum theory, developed wave mechanics.
Erwin Schrodinger
Edwin Hubble
Hans Bethe
Leonard Euler
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1809 - 1882. English naturalist and geologist, contributions to evolutionary theory.
Michael Faraday
Jan Evanglista Purkynje
Charles Darwin
Carl von Linné
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Which German-born theoretical physicist said this?
Johannes Kepler
Albert Einstein
J.A.Komenský
Charles Darwin
12
What principle states that the amount of water displaced is equal to its weight?
Kepler
Newton
Da Vinci
Archimedes
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1564 – 1642 Italian astronomer said "Nonetheless, it moves."
Johannes Kepler
Stephen Hawking
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
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French chemist and microbiologist - worked on vaccination, causes and preventions of diseases.
Dmitri Mendelee
Louis Pasteur
Jan Janský
Michael Faraday
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Which of these were invented first?
telephone
telescope
television
telegraph
16
Alfred Nobel was NOT
Swedish
rich
the inventor of dynamite
the person who discovered nobelium
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1856 - 1939. Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis.
George Ohm
James D. Watson
Tycho Brahe
Sigmund Freud
18
Place the invention of the telephone in the correct decade of the 19th century.
1870s
1890s
1850s
1860s
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1871 – 1937. The father of nuclear physics. Discovered alpha and beta / radioactive half-life.
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Lord Kelvin
Robert Oppenheimer
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Discovered the system of oxidation numbers. Popularized the terms ANODE, CATHODE, ELECTRODE.
Pierre Currie
Dmitri Mendeleev
Ernest Rutherford
Michael Faraday