DISCOVERERS OF SCIENCE
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Here is a quiz about people who were discoverers in the scientific field. The quiz covers four branches of science.
Physical Science 1. Who discovered noble gases?
1. Who discovered noble gases?
Glenn Seaborg
James Dewar
William Ramsay
Dmitri Mendeleev
2. Who discovered that an electric current produces a magnetic field?
Hans Christian Oersted
Michael Faraday
Andre Ampere
George Ohm
3. Who discovered atmospheric pressure?
Otto von Guericke
Blaise Pascal
Rene Descartes
Evangelista Tomcelli
4. Who discovered electrolysis?
Humphry Davy
William Nicholson
Micheal Faraday
Alexendro Volta
5. Who discovered that X-rays cause genetic mutations?
Hermann Muller
Irene Joiiot-Curie
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Barbara McClintock
6. Who discovered 'tunnelling'- the flow of electrons through an insulator - between superconductors?
RW Anderson
Leon Cooper
J.M. Rowell
Brian D. Josephson
7. Who discovered superconductivity?
Georg Bednorz
K.A. Muller
John Bardeen
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
8. Who discovered that a body of an animal contains electricity?
Lazzaro Spallanzani
Luigi Galvani
Jan Ingen-Housz
Santorio Santorio
9. Who discovered 'latent heat'?
Joseph Black
Joseph Priestley
Henri Louis Le Chatelier
Josiah Willard Gibbs
10. Who discovered the diffraction of light?
Christian Huygens
Robert Hookc
Francesco Maria Grimaldi
Isaac Newton
11. Who discovered 'parallax'?
Archimedes
Aristotle
Hipparchus
None
12. Who discovered piezoelectricity?
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie
Ernst Rutherford
Thomas Seebeck
13. Who discovered the element uranium?
Martin H. Klaproth
Franz J. Muller
Torbern O. Beromanr
Claude Berthollet
14. Who discovered the photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
Heinrich Hertz
James Clerk Maxwell
Thomas A. Edison
15. Who discovered that light is a band of seven colors?
Robert Hooke
Galileo Galilei
Biological Science 16. Who discovered the cure for the disease called 'Beri-beri'?
16. Who discovered the cure for the disease called 'Beri-beri'?
Christiaan Eijkman
Ronald Ross
Denis E Burkitt
Paul Ehrlich
17. Who discovered the remains of the oldest hominid yet found, Australopithecus afarensis?
Raymond Dart
Mary Anning
Mary Leakey
Donald Johanson
18. Who discovered the function of thymus gland?
Jacques Miller
Peter Medawar
Gerald Edelman
Karl Landsteiner
19. Who discovered the AIDS-causing virus called 'HIV'?
Robert Gallo
Luc Montagnier
Albert Sabino
Joseph Goldstein
20. Who discovered 'genetic drift'?
Sewall Wright
Gregor Mendel
J.B.S. Haldane
E.O. Wilson
21. Who discovered the structure of chlorophyll -the green in plants?
Govindjee
Robert Robinson
Richard Willstatter
22. Who discovered valves in the veins?
Galen
Fabricius
Mondino de Luzzi
Ambroise Pare
23. Who discovered the spermatozoa in semen?
Francesco Redi
Marcello Malpighi
Anton van Leeuwcnhoek
Vincenzo Menghini
24. Who discovered photosynthesis?
Jan Ingenhousz
Henry Cavendish
25. Who discovered the red blood corpuscle?
William Harvey
Jan Swammerdam
Luigi Gaivani
26. Who discovered the microbe that causes malaria?
Charles Laveran
S.N. De
Edward Jonas Salk
Terrestrial Science 27. Who discovered the jet stream - a ribbon of westerly winds flowing in the upper atmosphere?
27. Who discovered the jet stream - a ribbon of westerly winds flowing in the upper atmosphere?
Joseph C. Farman
Carl Rossby
James van Allen
William Dines
28. Who discovered the stratosphere?
Leon Philippe Teisserene de Bort
John F. Daniell
George Hadley
Carl G. Rossby
29. Who discovered the reversals in the magnetic field of earth?
Motonori Matuyama
Leon Foucault
William Gilbert
Otto Stern
30. Who discovered the solid core at the center of the earth?
Beno Gutenberg
James Hutton
Inge Lehmann
Abraham G. Werner
31. Who discovered 'magnetopause' - the boundary between the earth's magnetic field and the interplanetary medium?
Lou A. Frank
Konstantin Gringauz
Norman F. Ness
Edward Appleton
32. Who headed the team that discovered the ozone hole over Antarctica?
Walter H. Munk
Alexander Humboldt
Edward V Appleton
33. Who discovered the boundary between the crust of the earth and its mantle?
William M. Ewing
Nicolas Desmarest
Louis Agassiz
Andrija Mohorovicic
34. Who discovered the variation in the location of the geographic poles?
Richard Oldham
Seth Carlo Chandler
William Maurice Ewing
James Clark Ross
35. Who discovered New Zealand?
James Cook
Arthur Phillip
Charles Sturt
Abel Janszoon Tasman
36. Who discovered the North Magnetic Pole?
Auguste Piccard
Alvan Graham Clark
37. Which explorer discovered Greenland?
Bjarne Herjulfson
Erik Thorvaldson
Ingolfur Arnarson
Leik Eriksson
Astronomical Science 38. Who discovered the sunspot cycle?
38. Who discovered the sunspot cycle?
Samuel Schwabe
Edward Maunder
John Evershed
39. Who discovered helium in the sun?
Jacobus Kapteyn
Norman Lockyer
M.N. Saha
R Janssen
40. Who discovered Miranda, the fifth satellite of Uranus?
Gerard R Kuiper
John Herschel
William Herschel
Asaph Hall
41. Who discovered cosmic rays?
Bruno B. Rossi
Robert A. Millikan
Victor E Hes
42. Who discovered interstellar matter and gas?
Tycho Brahe
John Michell
Johannes Hartmann
43. Who discovered the gaps in the asteroid belt?
Urban Leverrier
Daniel Kirkwood
Giovanni Cassini
44. Who discovered hydrogen in the sun spectroscopically?
Gustav Kirchhoff
Robert Bunsen
Anders Angstrom
Willebrord Snell
45. Who discovered 'Amalthea', a satellite of Jupiter?
Percival Lowell
Voyager-H
E.E. Barnard
46. Who discovered the differential rotation of the sun with latitude?
Richard Carrington
47. Who discovered the structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way?
Harlow Shapley
Bernard Lovell
George E. Hale
48. Who discovered the Andromeda nebula?
Simon Marius
Claudius Ptolemy