Quiz Bowl - Science - Scientists

Question 1

This "father of rocket science" helped develop the V-2 rocket for Germany.

Accepted Answer

Wernher von Braun

Question 2

Along with Gottfried Leibniz, he invented Calculus.

Accepted Answer

Issac Newton

Question 3

At the University of Chicago, this Italian-born physicist pioneered the nuclear chain reaction.

Accepted Answer

Enrico Fermi

Question 4

He created a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the earth.

Accepted Answer

Leon Foucault

Question 5

He is recognized as having discovered pencillin

Accepted Answer

Alexander Fleming

Question 6

He proposed the Plum Pudding Model.

Accepted Answer

JJ Thompson

Question 7

He bombarded gold foil with alpha particles in the gold foil experiment.

Accepted Answer

Ernest Rutherford

Question 8

He illustrated quamt mechanics by an experiment where a cat was both dead and alive.

Accepted Answer

Erwin Schrödinger

Question 9

He developed the most widely accepted model of an atom.

Accepted Answer

Neils Bohr

Question 10

He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter and first to observe the rings of Saturn

Accepted Answer

Galileo Galilei

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