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1
Which British molecular biologist was a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
Francis Crick
Alexander Fleming
Otto Hahn
Michael Faraday
2
Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?
Dmitri Mendeleev
Louis Pasteur
Antoine Lavoisier
Blaise Pascal
3
The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___
Phlogiston
Amoxicillin
Aspirin
Penicillin
4
Which Serbian-American is known for his design of the AC electricity supply system?
Louis Pasteur
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Dmitri Mendeleev
5
Which English theoretical physicist authored
A Brief History of Time
?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Stephen Hawking
Albert Einstein
Ernest Rutherford
6
Gregor Mendel's experiments established many of the rules of heredity. Which plant did he use?
Potatos
Broccoli
Peas
Beans
7
Who collected evidence for 20 years before publishing On the Origin of Species (1859)?
Michael Faraday
Charles Darwin
Nikola Tesla
Gregor Mendel
8
Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?
James Watt
James Clerk Maxwell
James Prescott Joule
James Watson
9
Who explained the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?
Isaac Newton
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Antoine Lavoisier
10
Which X-ray crystallographer made contributions to the understanding of the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
Lise Meitner
Marie Curie
Barbara McClintock
11
Which Danish physicist proposed that electrons in atoms jump from one orbit to another?
Otto Hahn
Nikola Tesla
Niels Bohr
James Watson
12
Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?
Michael Faraday
Louis Pasteur
Antoine Lavoisier
Dmitri Mendeleev
13
Which Russian chemist developed of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?
Antoine Lavoisier
Nikolay Basov
Dmitri Mendeleev
Pavel Cherenkov
14
Which American molecular biologist was a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA?
James Watson
Enrico Fermi
Charles Darwin
Linus Pauling
15
Who created one of the first telescopes, and proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?
Ernest Rutherford
Galileo Galilei
Gregor Mendel
James Clerk Maxwell
16
Which physicist conducted research that led to the first "splitting" of the atom in 1917?
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
Ernest Rutherford
Michael Faraday
17
Which Polish scientist studied radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?
Lise Meitner
Rosalind Franklin
Marie Curie
Otto Hahn
18
Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry?
Francis Crick
Charles Darwin
Michael Faraday
Alexander Fleming
19
Which German chemist discovered nuclear fission and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1944?
Michael Faraday
Antoine Lavoisier
Albert Einstein
Otto Hahn
20
Who revolutionized modern physics with his general theory of relativity?
Albert Einstein
Galileo Galilei
Stephen Hawking
Niels Bohr
