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Who proposed the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Werner Heisenberg

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What analysis method is associated with Friedrich Wohler?

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Wohler Analysis

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Which isotope is known as Iodine 131?

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Glenn Seaborg

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Who introduced the term ‘Electron’?

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George Johnstone Stoney

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Who discovered Argon?

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John William Strutt and 3rd Baron Rayleigh

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Who discovered the Cyclohexane Chair Confirmation?

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Odd Hassel

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Who is credited with discovering Uranium’s spontaneous radioactivity?

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

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Who proposed the structure of Benzene?

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August Kekule

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Who were the first to create a spectroscope?

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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

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Who discovered inert gaseous elements in the air?

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Sir William Ramsay

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Who introduced the concept of Chemical Potential?

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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Who established the relationship between an element’s atomic number and the frequency of x-rays?

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Henry Moseley

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Who discovered Nuclear Fission?

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Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman

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Who discovered covalent bonds and electron pairs?

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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Who invented Carbon-14 dating?

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Willard Libby

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Who discovered VSEPR Theory?

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Ronald Nyholm

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Who studied the effect of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion?

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Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina

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Who performed the Cathode Ray Tube experiment?

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Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler

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Who formulated the Law of Definite Proportions?

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Joseph Louis Proust

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20
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Who discovered ten transuranium elements?

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Glenn Seaborg

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21
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Who discovered the electron?

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JJ Thomson

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Who is known as the Godfather of Nuclear Fission?

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Otto Hahn

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23
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Who investigated the fission of heavy nuclei?

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Otto Hahn

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Who stated that reaction behavior is due to the movement of electrons?

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Robert Robinson

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Who discovered the neutron?
James Chadwick
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Who proposed the Law of Octaves?
John Newlands
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Who discovered Rubidium?
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff
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Who was responsible for creating the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?
Irene Joliot Curie and Frederic Joliot
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Who coined the term 'Radioactivity'?
Marie Curie
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Who explained the essence of entropy 27 years after its introduction?
Ludwig Boltzmann
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Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?
Svante Arrhenius
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Who introduced the concept of entropy?
Rudolf Clausius
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Who introduced the resonance concept?
Linus Pauling
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Who discovered Nuclear Transmutation?
Ernest Rutherford
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Who was a proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions?
John Dalton
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Who discovered the hydroboration-oxidation reaction?
Herbert Brown
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Who discovered Helium during the 1686 solar eclipse?
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff
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Who discovered X-rays?
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
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Who proposed the Law of Conservation of Mass?
Antoine Lavoisier
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Who discovered the element Caesium?
Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff
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Who demonstrated wave-particle duality?
Robert Millikan
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Who synthesized urea from inorganic compound ammonium cyanate?
Friedrich Wohler
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Who proposed that energy, like matter, is discontinuous?
Max Planck
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Who described electron group geometries?
Ryutaro Tsuchida
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Who conducted research on radiation phenomena?
Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie
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Who reacted inorganic carbon disulfide to produce organic acetic acid?
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
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Who discovered the ratio of electric charge and mass of the electron?
JJ Thomson
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Who discovered the free radical addition of HBr to alkenes?
Morris Kharasch
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Who made significant contributions to theoretical physics and the photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
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Who discovered Radium and Polonium?
Marie Curie
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Who discovered the proton?
James Chadwick
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Who is known as the father of Chemical Engineering?
George E. Davis
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Who introduced the term 'Isomers'?
Jons Jacob Berzelius
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Which elements were discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers?
*Neon* *Krypton* *Xenon*
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Who discovered Radon from Radium radioactivity decay?
Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy
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Who proposed the arrangement of elements by atomic masses independently of Mendeleev?
Lothar Meyer
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Who isolated Helium from uranium ore, clevelite?
Sir William Ramsay
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Who first proposed the actinide concept?
Glenn Seaborg
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Who is known as the father of Nuclear Chemistry?
Otto Hahn
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Who discovered that enzymes can be crystallized?
James Sumner
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Who proposed the planetary model of the atom?
Niels Bohr
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Who discovered fullerenes?
Richard Smalley, Robert Curl and Harold Kroto
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Who is known as the architect of geodetic domes, also called Buckyballs?
Buckminster Fuller
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Who discovered the chemical pathways of photosynthesis?
Melvin Calvin
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Who introduced the 3,3 sigmatropic rearrangement?
Arthur Cope and Elizabeth Hardy
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Who established the first standard for screw threads?
Joseph Whitworth
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Who suggested the use of Permutit for water softening?
Robert Gans
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Who introduced the term 'Polymer'?
Jons Jacob Berzelius
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Who was the proponent of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics?
Ralph Howard Fowler
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Who was the proponent of the first law of thermodynamics?
Rudolf Clausius
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Who proved the law of conservation of energy by converting energy into water and extracting it as heat?
James Prescott Joule
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Who is known as the father of Thermodynamics?
Sadi Carnot
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Who discovered Phenolphthalein?
Adolf Von Baeyer
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Who discovered Hydrogen Peroxide?
Louis Jacques Thenard
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Who first synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?
Albert Hofmann
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Who first prepared chlorine gas by oxidizing NaCl with Manganese Oxide (MnO)?
C.W. Scheele
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Who discovered Salicylic Acid?
Raffaele Piria
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Who synthesized Acetylsalicylic Acid?
Felix Hoffmann
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Who discovered the NOx effect in ozone depletion?
Paul Crutzen

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