Pioneers of Science Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh 1

Fun Quiz PIONEERS OF SCIENCE HIMANSU SEKHAR FATESINGH 1. Who is considered as the Father of plastic 5. Who is often regarded surgery and cosmetic as the Father of taxonomy? surgery? a) Carl Linnaeus a) Hippocrates b) Charaka b) Jan F. Gronovius c) Sushruta c) Philip Miler d) Imhotep d) J.J. Dillenius

2. Who is regarded as 6. He is considered the Father of chemistry? the Father of a) Robert Boyle vaccination? b) Henry Cavendish a) Robert Koch c) John Dalton b) Ronald Ross d) Sir Humphry Davy c) Paul Ehrlich d) Edward Jenner

7. Who has earned the title, the 3. The title, the Father Father of the fertilizer industry? of Microbiology, is a) Emil Fischer given to: b) Justus Liebig a) Reinier de Graaf c) Georges Cuvier b) Robert Koch d) Jakob Berzelius c) Ferdinand Cohn d) Leeuwenhoek

8. He is widely known as the Father of genetics? a) Charles Darwin b) William Bateson c) Hugo de Vries d) Gregor Mendel

4. Who is called the 9. He is often called the Father founder of microscopic of modern bacteriology? anatomy? a) Paul Ehrlich a) Claude Bernard b) Alexander Fleming b) Marcello Malpighi c) Louis Pasteur c) Landsteiner d) Jonas Salk d) William Harvey

58 SCIENCE REPORTER, January 2010 Fun Quiz 16. He is known as the Father of 10. Who is considered the Physical Chemistry: Father of antiseptic medicine? a) Wilhelm Ostwald b) Willard Gibbs a) Joseph Lister c) Gilbert N. Lewis b) Louis Pasteur d) Merle Randall c) Florence Nightingale d) Ignaz Semmelweis

17. Who is often described as the 11. He is regarded as the Father of Thermodynamics? Father of experimental psychology: a) James Joules b) Lord Kelvin a) Alfred Binet c) Sadi Carnot b) Wilhelm Wundt d) Emile Claperyron c) Ivan Pavlov d) Gustav Fechner

12. Who is given the title “the Father of psychoanalysis”? 18. He is known as the Father of Modern Astronomy: a) Sigmund Freud b) Carl G. Jung a) Galileo Galilei c) Nikolaas Tinbergen d) Ivan Pavlov b) Tycho Brahe c) Johannes Kepler d) Nicolas Copernicus

13. He is widely revered as the 19. Who is often remembered as Father of quantum physics: the Father of DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling? a) Erwin Schrodinger b) Albert Michelson a) Oswald T. Avery c) Albert Einstein b) James Watson d) Max Planck c) Sir Alec Jeffreys d) Rosalind Franklin

14. Who is called the Father of 20. He is best known as the Father nuclear physics? of the Atom Bomb.

a) J.J. Thomson a) Robert Oppenheimer b) Ernest Rutherford b) Otto Hahn c) Neils Bohr c) Enrico Fermi d) Enrico Fermi d) Lise Meitner

15. He is given the title “the Father of Molecular Biology”. ANSWERS: 1.c 2.a 3.d 4.b 5.a 6.d a) Linus Pauling 7.b 8.d 9.c 10.a 11.b 12.a b) Alex Strokes 13.d 14.b 15.a 16.b 17.c 18.d c) Sir John Randall 19.c 20.a d) Raymond Gosling Contributed by Mr Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh, Qrs No-F/554, Ib Thermal Power Station, P.O. Banharpali, Dist-Jharsuguda, Orissa-768234 SCIENCE REPORTER, January 2010 59