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
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?