1. Who first proposed a comprehensive programme for science and technology in Europe?

    Roger Bacon

    Galileo Galilei

    Francis Bacon

    William Whewell

2. . Name the person who was the first to classify the now widely accepted human blood groups?

    Peter Medawar

    Charles Sherrington

    Karl Landsteiner

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek

3. Who first suggested that electrons possess spin?

    Pavel Cerenkov

    Samuel A. Goudsmit

    Niels Bohr

    Peter Higgs

4. Who gave the first direct demonstration of the rotation of the earth?

    Seth Carlo Chandler

    Eratosthenes

    Joseph Fourier

    Leon Foucault

5. The first accurate measurement of the speed of light was made by?

    Armand Fizeau

    Ole Romer

    George Fitzgerald

    Albert Michelson

6. Who measured the thickness of the oceanic crust first?

    Gordon Robin

    William Maurice Ewing

    William Beebe

    H.H. Hess

7. Name of the first person to give the correct description of cancer disease?

    Wilhelm Waldeyer Hart

    Harvey W Cushing

    Thomas Addison

    Otto Warburg

8. Who first found out that mountain sickness was caused by lack of oxygen at high altitudes?

    Alexander von Humboldt

    Evangelista Torricelli

    Benjamin Franklin

    Blaise Pascal

9. Name of the first scientist working full-time in industry to win the Nobel Prize?

    Godfrey Hounsfield

    Irving Langmuir

    Claude E. Shannon

    Fritz Haber

10. Who was the first oceanographer to conduct a systematic survey of ocean winds and currents?

    Matthew R Maury

    William M. Ewing

    William Beebe

    Jacques Cousteau

11. Who was the first scientist to become wealthy through science?

    William Thomson

    Charles Darwin

    Paul Muller

    James Watt

12. Who was the first to receive two Nobel Prizes in chemistry?

    Frederick Sanger

    Linus Paulin

    Marie Curie

    Willard F. Libby

13. Who was the first physician to dissect a human body to study its insides?

    William Harvey

    Alcmaeon

    Hippocrates

    Praxagoras

14. Who was the first to conclude through an experiment that the chemical elements that existed on the earth were also present in 'heavenly' bodies?

    Richard Carrington

    Gustav Kirchhoff

    Jean-Baptiste Biot

    Robert Bunsen

15. Who was the first to demonstrate the power of air pressure?

    Otto von Guericke

    Blaise Pascal

    Archimedes

    Evangelista Torricelli

16. Who was the first to eliminate a disease by recommending a proper diet?

    Christiaan Eijkman

    Louis Pasteur

    Robert Koch

    Abraham Gesner

17. Who was the first to build a modern seismograph?

    H.H. Hess

    John Milne

    Charles Richter

    John Dalton

18. Who was the first to describe the preparation of hydrochloric acid?

    Paracelsus

    Georgius Agricola

    Libavius

    Geber

19. Who was the first to measure the blood pressure of a human being?

    Stephen Hales

    William Harvey

    Thomas Willis

    Luigi Galvani

20. Who was the first to discover convincing evidence favouring Nicolaus Copernicus' Heliocentric theory of the universe?

    Isaac Newton

    Johann Kepler

    Galileo Galile

    Tycho Brahe