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1
Which British molecular biologist was a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
Michael Faraday
Otto Hahn
Francis Crick
Alexander Fleming
2
Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?
Blaise Pascal
Dmitri Mendeleev
Louis Pasteur
Antoine Lavoisier
3
Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?
Antoine Lavoisier
Dmitri Mendeleev
Louis Pasteur
Michael Faraday
4
Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons in atoms jump from one orbit to another?
Niels Bohr
James Watson
Nikola Tesla
Otto Hahn
5
Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?
James Watson
James Clerk Maxwell
James Prescott Joule
James Watt
6
Who collected evidence for 20 years before publishing On the Origin of Species (1859)?
Nikola Tesla
Gregor Mendel
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
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Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry?
Francis Crick
Charles Darwin
Alexander Fleming
Michael Faraday
8
Which physicist conducted research that led to the first "splitting" of the atom in 1917?
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
Ernest Rutherford
Niels Bohr
9
Which German chemist discovered nuclear fission and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1944?
Michael Faraday
Albert Einstein
Otto Hahn
Antoine Lavoisier
10
Who created one of the first telescopes, and proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?
James Clerk Maxwell
Galileo Galilei
Ernest Rutherford
Gregor Mendel
11
Which Russian chemist developed of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?
Antoine Lavoisier
Pavel Cherenkov
Nikolay Basov
Dmitri Mendeleev
12
Which X-ray crystallographer made contributions to the understanding of the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
Barbara McClintock
Marie Curie
Lise Meitner
13
Which English theoretical physicist authored
A Brief History of Time
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Ernest Rutherford
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking
14
Gregor Mendel's experiments established many of the rules of heredity. Which plant did he use?
Peas
Broccoli
Potatos
Beans
15
Which American molecular biologist was a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
Charles Darwin
Linus Pauling
Enrico Fermi
James Watson
16
Which Serbian-American is known for his design of the AC electricity supply system?
Michael Faraday
Dmitri Mendeleev
Nikola Tesla
Louis Pasteur
17
Which Polish scientist studied radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Rosalind Franklin
Marie Curie
Otto Hahn
Lise Meitner
18
Who revolutionized modern physics with his general theory of relativity?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Stephen Hawking
19
Who explained the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Antoine Lavoisier
Galileo Galilei
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The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___
Phlogiston
Penicillin
Aspirin
Amoxicillin
