Quiz on Scientists - 4

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1. Considered to be the "father of chemical warfare", which German scientist invented a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas?

a. Max Born

b. Fritz Haber

c. Albert Einstein

d. Otto Hahn

2. Who is called as father of bacteriology for his discoveries of principles in vaccination, microbial fermentation that led to development of vaccines for rabies and anthrax?

a. Robert Koch

b. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

c. Edward Jenner

d. Louis Pasteur

3. Which Austrian neurologist was the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue with the patient?

a. Sigmund Freud

b. Friedrich Nietzsche

c. Ivan Pavlov

d. Plato

4. Name the Burgomeister (mayor) of Magdeburg who performed the famous ‘Magdeburg Hemispheres' experiment.

a. William Gilbert

b. Stephen Gray

c. Charles Francois

d. Otto von Guericke

5. Name the scientist, known for the law that states ‘for a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional',

a. Robert Boyle

b. Robert Hooke

c. Antoine Lavoisier

d. Isaac Newton

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1. Considered to be the "father of chemical warfare", which German scientist invented a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas?

a. Max Born

b. Fritz Haber

c. Albert Einstein

d. Otto Hahn

Did You Know?

The Haber–Bosch process is the common method employed to produce fertilizer that makes about half of the world’s food today.

Read more about it in this link.

2. Who is called as father of bacteriology for his discoveries of principles in vaccination, microbial fermentation that led to development of vaccines for rabies and anthrax?

a. Robert Koch

b. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

c. Edward Jenner

d. Louis Pasteur

Did You Know?

Louis Pasteur is a French Chemist credited to saving millions of lives through the developments of vaccines for rabies and anthrax.

Read more about it in this link.

3. Which Austrian neurologist was the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue with the patient?

a. Sigmund Freud

b. Friedrich Nietzsche

c. Ivan Pavlov

d. Plato

Did You Know?

Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques used to study the unconscious mind, which together form a method of treatment for mental disorders.

Read more about it in this link.

4. Name the Burgomeister (mayor) of Magdeburg who performed the famous ‘Magdeburg Hemispheres' experiment.

a. William Gilbert

b. Stephen Gray

c. Charles Francois

d. Otto von Guericke

Did You Know?

Otto von Guericke was a German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher who invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.

Read more about it in this link.

5. Name the scientist, known for the law that states ‘for a fixed amount of an ideal gas kept at a fixed temperature, pressure and volume are inversely proportional',

a. Robert Boyle

b. Robert Hooke

c. Antoine Lavoisier

d. Isaac Newton

Did You Know?

Boyle’s law, also called Mariotte’s law, a relation concerning the compression and expansion of a gas at constant temperature.

Read more about it in this link.

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