PIONEERS OF SCIENCE

By Dilip K Salvi

A quiz on Scientists who opened up and explored new areas in Science


1. Who is the pioneer of spectroscopy?

    Gustav Kirchhoff

    Robert Bunsen

    William Nicol

    James C Maxwell

2. Who is the pioneer in the study of slow virus infections?

    Daniel Bovet

    Peter Medawar

    Robert Koch

    Daniel C. Gajdusek

3. Who is the pioneer of chemotherapy - the treatment of diseases by drugs?

    J.B.S. Haldane

    P.C. Mahalnobis

    C.R. Rao

    Ronald Fisher

4. Who is the pioneer in using bacteria for various studies in genetics?

    E.L Tatum

    G. Nossal

    Joshua Lederberg

    George W Beadle

5. Who is the pioneer of the science of polarimetry?

    William Nicolson

    William Bragg

    William Nicol

    Jean Biot

6. Who was the pioneer in measuring the charge on an electron?

    Enrico Fermi

    James Chadwick

    Robert Millikan

    C.T.R. Wilson

7. Who is the pioneer of holography?

    Theodore Maiman

    C.K.N. Patel

    Brian Josephson

    Denis Gabor

8. Who is the pioneer of sociobiology?

    Niko Timbergen

    E.O. Wilson

    Konrad Lorenz

    Charles Darwin

9. Who is the pioneer in human heart transplantation?

    Christiaan Barnard

    Gregory Pincus

    Allan Cormack

    William Harvey

10. Who is the pioneer in using statistics in various non-mathematical subjects?

    J.B.S. Haldane

    P.C. Mahalnobis

    P.C. Mahalnobis

    Ronald Fisher