The Builders of Science

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1. Which two gentlemen accidently discovered cosmic radiation in 1965? Robert Dicke and George Gamow Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson Alan Guth and Dennid Overbye Georges Lemaitre and Bell Holmdel

2. In the 1750's Karl Scheele discovered the elements oxygen, molybdenum, chlorine, fluorine, manganese, tungsten, nitrogen and _______? Hydrogen Barium Helium Mercury

3. "Dying stars" were first discovered by? Oliver sacks Sir Isaac Newton Gerard Kuiper Robert Evans

4. Who is the only person to win both the Nobel Prize in Physics and in Chemistry? Marie Curie Sir Isaac Newton Albert Einstein Henri Becquerel

5. Who developed the Theory of Relativity? Albert Einstein J. Willard Gibbs Max Planck Edward Morley

6. Who first penned down the idea of atoms? Henry Cavendish John Dalton Humphry Davy Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

7. Who invented "radiocarbon dating" in the 1940's? Clair Patterson Willard Libby Thomas Midgley Tim Flannery

8. Who invented the "particle detector" and proved the existence of subatomic particles? Ernest Lawrence C.T.R Wilson Enrico Fermi James Trefil

9. The term 'supernova' was first penned by Robert Evans. True False

10. By whom was DNA discovered? Thomas Hunt Morgan Johann Friedrich Miescher Oswald Avery Rosalind Franklin