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1
Who invented the lightning rod?
Albert Einstein
Ben Watson
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Koch
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Which English theoretical physicist authored
The Theory of Everything
, and
A Brief History of Time?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
Ernest Rutherford
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Who is famous for his uncertainty principle and theory of quantum mechanics?
Werner Heisenberg
Albert Einstein
James Clerk Maxwell
Richard Feynman
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Who is best known for his investigations into the stability of the solar system?
Werner Heisenberg
James Clerk Maxwell
Johannes Kepler
Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace
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Who came up with the idea of quanta which led to quantum mechanics?
Max Planck
Edwin Hubble
Niels Bohr
Ptolemy
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Who is famous for the idea of quarks, the building blocks of most Earthly matter?
Johannes Kepler
Werner Heisenberg
Robert Wilson
Murray Gell-Mann
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Who discovered the radio-active elements radium and polonium?
Marie Curie
Alice Augusta Ball
Chien-Shiung Wu
Grace Hopper
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What was the force that made the apple fall to the ground that sparked Sir Isaac Newton's thinking?
friction
gravity
inertia
magnetism
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Who is famous for his work on the theory of relativity and for introducing the possibility of an expanding universe
?
Alexander Friedmann
Henrietta Lewitt
Johannes Kepler
Niels Bohr
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Who created the heliocentric theory/model?
Aristototle
Ptolemy
Arno Penzias
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Who is famous for he theory of electromagnetism?
Werner Heisenberg
James Clerk Maxwell
Murray Gell-Mann
Alexander Friedmann
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Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?
Niels Bohr
Albert Einstein
Galileo Galilei
Stephen Hawking
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Who discovered the first galaxies outside of our own?
Arno Penzias
Stephen Hawking
Edwin Hubble
Richard Feynman
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Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons in atoms jump from one orbit to another?
Otto Hahn
Nikola Tesla
James Watson
Niels Bohr
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Lise Meitner is one of only two women to have an element named in her honor—which element? (atomic number 109)
Molybden
Magnesium
Meitnerium
Mendelevium
16
Stephen Hawking is an expert in which of these areas?
Germs
Planets
Black holes
Maths
17
Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the sun?
James Clerk Maxwell
Aristoteles
Ernest Rutherford
Galileo Galilei
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Who is best known for his three laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
Robert Wilson
Niels Bohr
Arno Penzias