FOUNDERS OF SCIENCE
By DADAZI.NET
Certain theories and scientific concepts are taken for granted these days. Find out who were the founders of these.
1. Who founded the science of botany?
Jan Ingen-Housz
Hypatia
Theophrastus
Thales
2. Who founded the new subject of sociobiology?
E.O. Wilson
Konrad Lorenz
Nikolaas Tinbergen
Charles Darwin
3. Who founded the science of "chaos"?
Charles H. Townes
Blaise Pascal
Carl Rossby
Edward Lorenz
4. Who is the founder of the science of bacteriology?
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
Paul Ehrlich
Lazzaro Spallanzani
5. Who founded the modern group theory?
Theodore von Karman
Joseph Liouville
Evariste Galois
Augustin Cauchy
6. Who founded the science of thermodynamics?
Benjamin Thompson
Sadi Carnot
Robert Stirling
Christian Huygens
7. Who is the founder of X-ray crystallography?
William Bragg
Phillipp Lenard
Lawrence Bragg
Both Lawrence Bragg and William Bragg
8. Who founded the science of hydrodynamics?
Archimedes
Daniel Bernoulli
William Hamilton
9. Who is the founder of modern archeology?
Domenico Fontana
Mortimer Wheeler
S.R. Rao
All three
10. Who is the founder of the science of seismology?
Benjamin Franklin
Charles Francis Richter
John Michell
James Hutton
11. Who is the founder of paleontology?
Alfred Russel Wallace
Georges Cuvier
Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
12. Who is the founder of modern geography?
Gerardus Mercator
Pomponius Mela
James Hutton and Gerardus Mercator
13. Who laid the foundation of the science of logic?
Rene Descartes
Isaac Newton
Aristotle
Plato