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Helium has properties very similar to

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Neon

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Our tern magnet comes from an old term

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Lithos magnetis (magnesian stone)….town of magnesia in Greece

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After the fall of Rome most of aristotle work survived where

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Byzantium, the Easter Roman Empire

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Who discovered that electromagnetic radiation is absorbed and emitted as quanta

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Max Planck

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Bruno belonged to a sect that believed that Christianity was a corruption of the old Egyptian religion in which the sun featured as a god. Name this sect

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Arianism

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The fossilised resin from a variety of trees is known as

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Amber

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Who proposed the idea of continental drift which in the 1960 evolved into plate tectonics

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Alfred wegener

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Who suggested that electrons can behave as waves

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Louis de Broglie

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Who measured the speed of light to within five percent of its modern value

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Hippolytus Fizeau

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Which famous personality was born in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born

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William Shakespeare

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The first photograph of nature was first obtained by

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Nicephore Niepce

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Hristmas lectures for students at the royal institute was started by

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Michael Faraday

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Which year was Bruno burned at the Stake

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1600, the same year that Gilbert’s De Magnate got published

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Discoverer of quasars

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Maarten schmidt

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Name another scientist who also made a reflecting telescope unaware of Leonard Digges

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Isaac Newton

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Discoverers of the statistical rules that govern the behaviour of quantum particles

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Enrich Fermi Paul Dirac

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Which physicist in 1880 did experiments to prove the existence of radio waves

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Heinrich Hertz

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What is electromagnetic induction

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A changing magnetic field ( made by a whirling magnet round in a circle) makes an electric field

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In the eastern Roman Empire aristotles work were translated into which language

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Syriac and then into Arabic

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Who invented colour photography

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James Clerk Maxwell

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Discoverer of the ozone layer

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Charles Fabry

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The first part of the genetic code was cracked by

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Marshall Nirenberg

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The first controlled nuclear reaction was achieved by

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Enrich fermi

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Who first measured the speed of light by timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter

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Ole roemer

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Which English scientist established electricity as anew branch of science distinct from magnetism
William Gilbert
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Michael Faraday was first apprenticed to a
Bookbinder
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Who discovered the miners safety lamp
Humphrey Davy
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Who introduced the idea of lines of force
Michael Faraday
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Who introduced the concept of epicycles in the cosmos
Ptolemy in second century AD
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Name the two discoverers of oxygen
Carl Scheele Joseph Priestly
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Name the British astronomer who invented the astronomical telescope
Leonard Digges
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Who observed the bending of starlight during the eclipse of the sun
Arthur Eddington
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Name the scientist who first liquefied the gas chlorine
Michael Faraday
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Who was William Gilbert’s contemporary
Giordano Bruno
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Name the scientist who first defined the species in the modern sense
George Louis Leclerc
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Who first invented the pendulum clock
Christian Huygens
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What was Gregor Mendel christened name
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Astronomers from which country first observed the supernova in 1054
Chinese astronomers
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Who formulated all equations describing all electric and magnetic phenomenon
James Clark Maxwell
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Name the two scientists who discovered electromagnetic induction
Michael Faraday Joseph Henry
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Who coined the term ice age
Louis Agassiz
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In which society did the joint publication of Darwin’s and Wallace’s paper take place
Linnaen society
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Who first built the radio telescope
Grote Reber
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Who was Michael Faraday successor in science
james clerk maxwell
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The first American colony was named after which English King
James 1
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Who published his first paper on the wave theory of light
Thomas Young
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Oxygen has similar properties to which element
Sulphur
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Who identified the messenger RNA
Jacques Monod Francis Jacob
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Discoverers of the cosmic background radiation
Arno Penzias Robert Wilson
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James Clerk Maxwell dies at the age of
48
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Mercury barometer was first invented by
Evangelists Torricelli
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A naturally accusing magnetic rock is known as
Lodestone
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Developers of the Big Bang theory
George Gamow Ralph Alpher Robert Herman
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Who synthesized urea from inorganic ingredients
Frederick Wohler
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In which journal did Gregor Mendel publish his work
in the proceedings of the natural science society of Brun
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Who died while studying the eruption of mount vesuvius
Pliny the elder
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In the 13th and 13th century who was mainly responsible for translating Greek exits to Latin
Thomas of aquinas
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Who first detected the link between electricity and magnetism
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Who first identified helium from its lines in the suns spectrum
Jules Janssen Norman Lockyer
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While on tour of Europe with Humphrey Davy which two famous scientists did Michael Faraday meet
Andre Ampere in Paris allesandra Volta in Italy
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Who explained chemistry in terms of quantum Physics
Linus Pauling
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Who first explained earthquakes
John Mitchell
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Name the scientist who further refined planetary orbits
Pierre de Laplace
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Which famous scientist studied the capillary action of liquids
Leonardo da Vinci
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Name two scientists who did experiments and found no evidence of ether
Albert Michaelson Edward Morley
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What was special about the miners safety lamp
it would detect the presence of dangerous methane and carbon dioxide and unlike other lamps would not ignite these gases
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Who was the first person to suggest the existence of dark stars, now known as black holes
John Mitchell
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Discoverer of the first pulsar
Jocelyn Bell
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Who first pioneered the reflecting and then the refracting telescope
Leonard Digges
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Name the scientists who explained how elements are synthesized inside stars
Fred Hoyle Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge William Fowler
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The Ancient Greeks called amber as
Elecktron
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Which famous personality died in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born
Michael Angelo buanorroti
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Who first published the classification of plants
Carl Linnaeus
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Name the scientist who discovered₹ the chemical compound benzene
Michael Faraday
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Name James Clerk Maxwells famous book
Treatise on electricity and magnetism
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Lithium reacts chemically much the same way as
Sodium
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Who further extended the quantum theory by developing quantum electrodynamics
Richard Feynman
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First use of the word gene was by
Wilhelm Johannsen
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The forerunner for science was
Natural philosophy
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What was James Clerk Maxwells famous work
maxwells Equations. he could describe every electrical and magnetic phenomenon in a set of only 4 equations
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Who first correctly identified the rings of Saturn
Christian Huygens
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Are the magnetic lines of force curved or straight
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Which scientist first determined the mass of the earth
Henry Cavendish
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Discoverer of the cosmic rays
Victor Hess
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Name the book that left a deep impression on Alfred Wallace, this book also set Darwin thinking
Essay on the principles of population by Thomas Malthus
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Who showed that the special theory of relativity could be explained in geometrical terms if time is the fourth dimension
Herman Minkowski
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Michael Faraday belonged to a sect of Scottish Presbyterians called
Sandemanians
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Who was Alfred Russel Wallace’s prospective client to buy his specimens
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Name the scientist who invents the term Biology
Jean Baptist’s Lamarck
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Who discovered sodium and potassium
Humphrey Davy
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Who proposed the law that gases contain equal number of molecules under the same conditions
Amedeo Avogadro
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Where was the term chemistry first used
By the scholars of Alexandria
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Who first observed that plants come in two sexes
Prosperous Alpini

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