Fun Quiz
FAMOUS PHYSICISTS
HIMANSU SEKHAR FATESINGH
1. The first woman to
receive the Nobel Prize in
physics was
a. Maria G. Mayer
b. Irene Curie
c. Marie Curie
d. Lise Meitner
6. He first succeeded in
producing the nuclear
chain reaction.
a. Otto Hahn
b. Fritz Strassmann
c. Robert Oppenheimer
d. Enrico Fermi
2. Who first suggested electron
shells around the nucleus?
a. Ernest Rutherford
b. Neils Bohr
c. Erwin Schrödinger
d. Wolfgang Pauli
7. The credit for discovering
electron microscope is often
attributed to
a. H. Germer
b. Ernst Ruska
c. George P. Thomson
d. Clinton J. Davisson
3. He first measured negative
charge on an electron.
a. J. J. Thomson
b. Clinton Davisson
c. Louis de Broglie
d. Robert A. Millikan
4. The existence of quarks was
first suggested by
a. Max Planck
b. Sheldon Glasgow
c. Murray Gell-Mann
d. Albert Einstein
5. The phenomenon of
superconductivity was
discovered by
a. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
b. Alex Muller
c. Brian D. Josephson
d. John Bardeen
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8. The wave theory of light was
first proposed by
a. Christiaan Huygens
b. Isaac Newton
c. Hermann Helmholtz
d. Augustin Fresnel
9. He was the first scientist
to find proof of Einstein’s
theory of relativity
a. Edwin Hubble
b. George Gamow
c. S. Chandrasekhar
d. Arthur Eddington
10. The credit for development of the cyclotron
goes to:
a. Carl Anderson
b. Donald Glaser
c. Ernest O. Lawrence
d. Charles Wilson
11. Who first proposed the use of absolute scale
of Temperature?
a. Anders Celsius
b. Lord Kelvin
c. Rudolf Clausius
d. Gabriel Fahrenheit
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12. The principle of
electromagnetic induction was
discovered by
a. Michael Faraday
b. Joseph Henry
c. Nikola Tesla
d. Hans C. Oersted
13. He invented integrated
circuit, the forerunner of the
computer microchip.
a. John Bardeen
b. Jack S. Kilby
c. William Shockley
d. Gordon Moore
14. The theoretical
physicist who first
proposed placing
telescopes in Space was:
a. James Webb
b. S. Chandrasekhar
c. Edwin Hubble
d. Lyman Spitzer
15. Who first proposed
that light is a form of
electromagnetic radiation?
a. James Clerk Maxwell
b. Heinrich Hertz
c. Wilhelm Weber
d. Max Planck
16. The first accurate
measurement of the
velocity of light was made
by.
a. Albert Michelson
b. Armand Fizeau
c. Jean Foucault
d. Galilei Galileo
17. He first
formulated the
uncertainty
principle.
a. Clinton Davisson
b. Max Planck
c. Werner
Heisenberg
d. Louis de Broglie
18. Which of the following
physicists developed holography?
a. Charles H. Townes
b. Dennis Gabor
c. Edwin Hall
d. Theodore Maiman
19. The elementary
particle meson was
envisaged by
a. Victor Franz Hess
b. Carl Anderson
c. Cecil F. Powell
d. Yukawa Hideki
20. He is the only
physicist to receive
two Nobel Prizes in
same categories.
a. Albert Einstein
b. Max Planck
c. John Bardeeen
d. James Clerk Maxwell
21. His postulate imposes
restriction on the size of a white
dwarf. Who is he?
a. Edwin Hubble
b. S. Chandrasekhar
c. S. N. Bose
d. Sir Fred Hoyle
ANSWERS:
1. c
2.b
3.d
4.c
5.a
6. d
7. b
8.a
9.d
10.c
11.b
12.a
13.b
14.d
15.a
16.a
17.c
18.b
19.d
20.c
21.b
Contributed by Mr. Himansu Sekhar Fatesingh, a freelance Science Writer.
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