Discoveries Flashcards
Who invented the atomic battery
in 1912?
Henry Moseley
Who is known as the ‘Father of Indian Nuclear Programme’?
Homi Jehangir Bhabha
The spectrum of light was first explained by____.
Isaac Newton
Who discovered radium?
Pierre and Marie Currie
The Wright brothers completed the world’s first successful controlled powered flight in:
1903
The names of Wright brothers credited with inventing the aeroplane were:
Wilbur and Orville
Name the physicist who is credited with the discovery of the Neutron. This 1932 discovery led to his winning the Nobel Prize?
James Chadwick
The American scientist Edwin Hubble’s name is associated with which of these theories?
The Big Bang Theory
Who among the following scientists invented the Cotton Gin?
Eli Whitney
Who among the following scientists invented Kevlar?
Stephanie Louise Kwolek
Who among the following scientists invented dynamite?
Alfred Nobel
What did Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discover?
X-Rays
Which scientist won the Nobel
prize in Physics in 1918 for the
discovery of ‘Energy Quanta’?
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck Explanation: Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck won the Nobel prize in Physics in 1918 for the discovery of ‘Energy Quanta’.
Superconductivity was discovered by ______, who was also awarded the Noble Prize for
Physics in 1911.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
The discovery and understanding of electromagnetic induction is based on a long
series of experiments carried out by ______.
Faraday and Henry
