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Famous Physicists Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh Fun Quiz FAMOUS PHYSICISTS HIMANSU SEKHAR FATESINGH 1. The first woman to 6. He first succeeded in receive the Nobel Prize in producing the nuclear physics was chain reaction. a. Maria G. Mayer a. Otto Hahn b. Irene Curie b. Fritz Strassmann c. Marie Curie c. Robert Oppenheimer d. Lise Meitner d. Enrico Fermi 2. Who first suggested electron 7. The credit for discovering shells around the nucleus? electron microscope is often a. Ernest Rutherford attributed to b. Neils Bohr a. H. Germer c. Erwin Schrödinger b. Ernst Ruska d. Wolfgang Pauli c. George P. Thomson d. Clinton J. Davisson 8. The wave theory of light was 3. He first measured negative first proposed by charge on an electron. a. Christiaan Huygens a. J. J. Thomson b. Isaac Newton b. Clinton Davisson c. Hermann Helmholtz c. Louis de Broglie d. Augustin Fresnel d. Robert A. Millikan 9. He was the first scientist 4. The existence of quarks was to find proof of Einstein’s first suggested by theory of relativity a. Max Planck a. Edwin Hubble b. Sheldon Glasgow b. George Gamow c. Murray Gell-Mann c. S. Chandrasekhar d. Albert Einstein d. Arthur Eddington 10. The credit for development of the cyclotron 5. The phenomenon of goes to: superconductivity was a. Carl Anderson b. Donald Glaser discovered by c. Ernest O. Lawrence d. Charles Wilson a. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes b. Alex Muller c. Brian D. Josephson 11. Who first proposed the use of absolute scale d. John Bardeen of Temperature? a. Anders Celsius b. Lord Kelvin c. Rudolf Clausius d. Gabriel Fahrenheit 58 SCIENCE REPORTER, July 2010 Fun Quiz 12. The principle of 17. He first electromagnetic induction was formulated the discovered by uncertainty a. Michael Faraday principle. b. Joseph Henry a. Clinton Davisson c. Nikola Tesla b. Max Planck d. Hans C. Oersted c. Werner Heisenberg d. Louis de Broglie 13. He invented integrated circuit, the forerunner of the computer microchip. a. John Bardeen b. Jack S. Kilby 18. Which of the following c. William Shockley physicists developed holography? d. Gordon Moore a. Charles H. Townes b. Dennis Gabor c. Edwin Hall d. Theodore Maiman 14. The theoretical 19. The elementary physicist who first particle meson was proposed placing envisaged by telescopes in Space was: a. Victor Franz Hess a. James Webb b. Carl Anderson b. S. Chandrasekhar c. Cecil F. Powell c. Edwin Hubble d. Yukawa Hideki d. Lyman Spitzer 20. He is the only physicist to receive two Nobel Prizes in same categories. 15. Who first proposed a. Albert Einstein that light is a form of b. Max Planck electromagnetic radiation? c. John Bardeeen a. James Clerk Maxwell d. James Clerk Maxwell b. Heinrich Hertz c. Wilhelm Weber d. Max Planck 21. His postulate imposes restriction on the size of a white dwarf. Who is he? a. Edwin Hubble b. S. Chandrasekhar 16. The first accurate c. S. N. Bose measurement of the d. Sir Fred Hoyle velocity of light was made by. a. Albert Michelson ANSWERS: b. Armand Fizeau c. Jean Foucault 1. c 2.b 3.d 4.c 5.a 6. d d. Galilei Galileo 7. b 8.a 9.d 10.c 11.b 12.a 13.b 14.d 15.a 16.a 17.c 18.b 19.d 20.c 21.b Contributed by Mr. Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh, a freelance Science Writer. Adress: Qrs No-F/554, I.T.P.S.Colony, P.O. Banharpali, Dist-Jharsuguda, Orissa-68234; Email: [email protected] SCIENCE REPORTER, July 2010 59.
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