Great Scientists

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1. Who formulated three laws of motion and a mathematical law of universal gravitation?

   • Galileo Galilei
   • Albert Einstein
   • Isaac Newton
   • Michael Faraday

2. Natural selection is central to the explanation of evolution developed independently by Charles Darwin and which other naturalist?

   • Alfred Russel Wallace
   • Gregor Mendel
   • Louis Pasteur
   • Niels Bohr

3. Which scientist shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for radiation research and later won the 1911 Chemistry prize?

   • Rosalind Franklin
   • Lise Meitner
   • Dorothy Hodgkin
   • Marie Curie

4. The equation E = mc² is associated with which physicist’s special theory of relativity?

   • Max Planck
   • Albert Einstein
   • Ernest Rutherford
   • James Clerk Maxwell

5. Which astronomer’s 1543 model placed the Sun near the center of the known planetary system?

   • Tycho Brahe
   • Claudius Ptolemy
   • Nicolaus Copernicus
   • Edwin Hubble

6. Experiments with pea plants led which researcher to quantitative rules of inheritance?

   • Gregor Mendel
   • Robert Hooke
   • Antoine Lavoisier
   • Alexander Fleming

7. Who demonstrated electromagnetic induction by generating electric current through a changing magnetic field?

   • André-Marie Ampère
   • Heinrich Hertz
   • Alessandro Volta
   • Michael Faraday

8. Whose use of cowpox material in 1796 became a landmark in the development of smallpox vaccination?

   • Joseph Lister
   • Edward Jenner
   • Robert Koch
   • Jonas Salk

9. Which physicist stated the uncertainty relation that limits simultaneous precision for position and momentum?

   • Erwin Schrödinger
   • Wolfgang Pauli
   • Werner Heisenberg
   • Paul Dirac

10. An inelastically scattered light component with shifted frequency bears the name of which Indian physicist?

    • C. V. Raman
    • Satyendra Nath Bose
    • Meghnad Saha
    • Homi J. Bhabha