Famous Scientists Trivia Questions
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Who is the physicist known for revolutionizing modern physics despite being a high school dropout?
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albert einstein
Which scientist, famous for his burner, discovered cesium and rubidium along with Gustav Kirchhoff?
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robert bunsen
Which agricultural scientist is known for treating polio victims with peanut oil and massages?
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george washington carver
Which scientist is known for his interest in gravity that is said to have originated from watching an apple fall?
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isaac newton
Which chemist's research into ascorbic acid led to the 1970 book 'Vitamin C and the Common Cold'?
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linus pauling
Which famous scientist is noted for his theory of relativity, and some scholars say his first wife, Mileva, may deserve some credit for it?
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albert einstein
In 1959, which dome designer did Khrushchev want to come over and teach his engineers a thing or two?
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buckminster fuller
Which scientist authored 'The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex' and proposed that humans and apes share a common ancestor?
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charles darwin
Who is the British expert on black holes often referred to as 'the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein'?
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stephen hawking
Which scientist, residing in the U.S. at the time, was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952?
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albert einstein
What compound did Nobel Prize laureate Sir Cyril Hinshelwood study in relation to the combination of oxygen and hydrogen?
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water
Which scientist was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for 'The Dragons of Eden'?
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carl sagan
Who is known as the French 'Father of Bacteriology'?
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louis pasteur
Which Swedish astronomer is credited with inventing the centigrade temperature scale?
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anders celsius
Which Russian physiologist published 'Work of the Digestive Glands' in 1897?
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ivan pavlov
Who is the 'Cosmos' astronomer mentioned in 'Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology'?
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carl sagan
Which scientist was born in Germany in 1879, became a Swiss citizen around the turn of the century, and a U.S. citizen in 1940?
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albert einstein
Which renowned scientist published his special theory of relativity in 1905?
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albert einstein
Which scientist is associated with the falling apple story that was first spread by Voltaire?
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isaac newton
Who was born in 1736 in Scotland, improved on Thomas Newcomen's engine, and died in 1819?
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james watt
In 1993, which scientist made a 'brief' appearance as himself on an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'?
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stephen hawking
Who is the son of anthropologists Louis and Mary who discovered an almost complete Homo erectus skeleton in 1984?
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richard leakey
Who is the Italian physicist that won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering radioactive elements beyond uranium?
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enrico fermi
Which historical monk used pea plants to discover the laws of heredity and might have humorously said, 'Give peas a chance'?
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gregor mendel
Who developed the special theory of relativity in 1905 and the general theory of relativity in 1916?
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albert einstein
What is the rare element named by Marie Curie after her birth country?
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polonium
Which scientist, who began using mercury in thermometers around 1715, has a temperature scale named after him?
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fahrenheit
Which zoologist founded the Karisoke Research Center in Rwanda and studied gorillas for 18 years?
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dian fossey
Who was the Russian physiologist known for his 1926 major published work 'Conditioned Reflexes'?
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ivan pavlov
Which physicist used a voice synthesizer to recite his vows at his 1995 wedding to Elaine Mason?
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stephen hawking
Which Russian chemist was 35 years old when he published the first version of the Periodic Table?
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dmitri mendeleev
Who is the famous primatologist known for her studies of chimpanzees, often named Jane?
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jane goodall
Which scientist, known as the 'Father of the A-Bomb,' quoted a Hindu line 'I am become death' after witnessing the first atomic explosion?
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j. robert oppenheimer
Which 'Father of Modern Astronomy' was born in Germany in 1571?
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johannes kepler
What is the name of the bacteriologist after whom the Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. is named?
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walter reed
Who is the scientist for whom the radiation belts around the Earth are named, and who was born in the heart of the Corn Belt?
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james van allen
Who is the Frenchman whose 1857 paper 'On Lactic Fermentation' introduced the germ theory of disease?
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louis pasteur
Which physicist, who developed the cyclotron, has a laboratory at Livermore, California named after him?
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ernest lawrence
Who is the scientist a method of staining bacteria is named for, but the metric unit of weight isn't?
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hans christian gram
Who is the physicist and author of 'A Brief History of Time' born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death?
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stephen hawking
Which ancient Greek inventor is known for his work with the lever, water screw, and the principle of displacement?
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archimedes
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