(CAR) Discoveries and Inventions 2

Question 1

Who Invented the laser

Answer 1

Charles H. Townes

Question 2

Father of Botany

Answer 2

Modern botany traces its roots back to Ancient Greece specifically to Theophrastus (c. 371–287 BC), a student of Aristotle who invented and described many of its principles and is widely regarded in the scientific community as the “Father of Botany”.

Question 3

Father of Zoology

Answer 3

Aristotle is known as the ‘Father of Biology’. Again, Botany and Zoology combine to form biology. So, I think Aristotle can e regarded as the “Father of Zoology’’ as well as the “Father of Botany”.

Question 4

Father of Taxonomy

Answer 4

Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes

Question 5

Father of Genetics

Answer 5

Gregor Mendel
(Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent)

Question 6

Cell theory was propounded by

Answer 6

Cell theory was eventually formulated in 1839. This is usually credited to Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann.

Question 7

Cholera Bacillus was discovered by

Answer 7

Robert Koch
As one a founder of the science of bacteriology, Robert Koch (1843-1910) enjoyed worldwide fame, including acknowledgement of his discovery in 1882 of the tubercle bacillus that caused tuberculosis and in 1884 the cholera bacillus, Vibrio cholerae.

Question 8

Famous discoveries of Einstien

Answer 8

• Theory of relativity

- Photoelectric effect

Question 9

Insulin was discovered by

Answer 9

Frederick Banting
That was the year Canadian physician Frederick Banting and medical student Charles H. Best discovered the hormone insulin in pancreatic extracts of dogs

Question 10

Nucleus was discovered by

Answer 10

Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858) was responsible for discovering the nucleus of a cell, he is perhaps best known for his discovery of the random movement of microscopic particles in a surrounding solution, later referred to as “Brownian motion.”

Question 11

Idiosome was discovered by

Answer 11

Golgi

Question 12

Chromosome was discovered by

Answer 12

Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz

He coined in 1888 the term “chromosome” (1888) to describe them.

Question 13

Cell was discovered by

Answer 13

Robert Hooke
The cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665 using a microscope. The first cell theory is credited to the work of Theodor Schwann and Matthias Jakob Schleiden in the 1830s.

Question 14

Which scientist explained about blood circulation for the first time

Answer 14

William Harvey

Question 15

_____ discovered the small pox vaccine

Answer 15

Edward Jenner

Question 16

____ invented the internal combustion engine

Answer 16

Rudolf Deisel

In the 1890s, Rudolf Diesel invented an efficient, compression ignition, internal combustion engine that bears his name.

Question 17

for ____ invention Alessandro Volta famous for

Answer 17

Battery
(Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane)

Question 18

____ is considered the founder of modern chemistry

Answer 18

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
(Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion. He recognized and named oxygen (1778) and hydrogen (1783) and opposed the phlogiston theory. Lavoisier helped construct the metric system, wrote the first extensive list of elements, and helped to reform chemical nomenclature.)

Question 19

Who discovered X-Rays

Answer 19

Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Wilhelm Roentgen, a German professor of physics, was the first person to discover electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range commonly known as X-rays today.

Question 20

Who formulated electromagnetic theory

Answer 20

James Clerk Maxwell
(His most notable achievement was to formulate the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, bringing together for the first time electricity, magnetism, and light as different manifestations of the same phenomenon.)

Question 21

Who invented the cotton gin

Answer 21

In 1793, Eli Whitney invented a simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South.

Question 22

___ is the founder of antiseptic medicine

Answer 22

Joseph Lister

British surgeon and medical scientist who was the founder of antiseptic medicine and a pioneer in preventive medicine.

Question 23

Who proposed the Big Bang theory

Answer 23

Georges Lemaître
In 1927, the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître proposed an expanding model for the universe to explain the observed redshifts of spiral nebulae, and calculated the Hubble law.

Question 24

Most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere

Answer 24

Nitrogen

Question 25

____ is an alloy (Mixture) and not a metal

Answer 25

Steel

Question 26

Who built the first fully practical airplane

Answer 26

Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane.

Question 27

Who built the first fully practical airplane?

Answer 27

Richard Trevithick
(Richard Trevithick (1771 – 1833) is credited with inventing the first high-pressure steam engine and the first operational steam locomotive at the turn of the 19th century)

Question 28

_____ American inventor held a world record nof 1,093 patents, and is considered the most famous inventor in American History.

Answer 28

Thomas Alva Edison
( Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison’s patents were in the United States, but other patents were approved in countries around the globe.)

Question 29

Alexander Fleming

Answer 29

Alexander Fleming was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on August 6, 1881, and studied medicine, serving as a physician during World War I. Through research and experimentation, Fleming discovered a bacteria-destroying mold which he would call penicillin in 1928, paving the way for the use of antibiotics in modern healthcare

Question 30

In 1901, _____, a piece of communication was invented by Gugliemo Marconi

Answer 30

Radio

Question 31

In 1901, ______ , a household item was invented by Hubert Cecil Booth

Answer 31

Vaccum Cleaner

Question 32

Who and when Bakelite was invented?

Answer 32

A polymeric plastic made from phenol and formaldehyde, Bakelite was one of the earliest synthetic materials to transform the material basis of modern life. It was named for its inventor, Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863–1944), who discovered the durable plastic in 1907

Question 33

Montessori System of Pre-Sch ooling was invented by

Answer 33

Maria Montessori

In 1907 developed a system which later became a global standard.

Question 34

Windscreen Wipers invented by

Answer 34

Mary Anderson in 1902

Question 35

Which invention by Frank Whittle in 1937 revolutionized the air transport industry after WWII

Answer 35

Jet Engine

Question 36

Ballpoint was invented by

Answer 36

Laszlo and George Biro

Question 37

When was helicopter was invented

Answer 37

On September 14, 1939, the VS-300, the world’s first practical helicopter

Question 38

A storage system developed by Charles Drew in 1940 enabled a particular type of banking. What was it

Answer 38

Blood Banking

Question 39

Microwave invented by

Answer 39

Percy Spencer

Question 40

The invention of which product by Robert Noyce in 1959 made the electronic equipments shrink in size?

Answer 40

Integrated Circuits

Question 41

Compact Disks invented

Answer 41

Sony and Philiips

in 1979

Question 42

Inventor of the first Photocopier

Answer 42

Chestor Carlson

Question 43

First cellular phone was invented in

Answer 43

1973 by Dr Martin Cooper at Motorola

Question 44

Blaise Pascal?

Answer 44

Pascal’s calculator (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascaline) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in the early 17th century. Pascal was led to develop a calculator by the laborious arithmetical calculations required by his father’s work as supervisor of taxes in Rouen.

Question 45

Who is associated with the invention of Computers

Answer 45

Babbage
(the first computer resembling today’s modern machines was the Analytical Engine, a device conceived and designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871.)

Question 46

Logarithm tables were invented by

Answer 46

John Napier
(Tables of numbers related in a very similar way were first published in 1614 by the mathematician, physicist and astronomer John Napier in a paper called The construction of the wonderful canon of logarithms.)

Question 47

____ was discovered by Ronald Ross

Answer 47

Malaria Parasite
(was a British medical doctor who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1902 for his work on the transmission of malaria, becoming the first British Nobel laureate, and the first born outside Europe)

Question 48

Who discovered that plants have life

Answer 48

Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose, began to conduct experiments on plants in the year 1900. Bose invented various devices and instruments to measure electrical responses in plants.

Question 49

Zero was invented by

Answer 49

Al Khawarzmi

Question 50

First Doctor’s thermometer was invented by

Answer 50

Fahreniet
(Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermometer in 1593 which, for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured. In 1714, Gabriel Fahrenheit invented the first mercury thermometer, the modern thermometer.)

Question 51

Alexandere Graham Bell

Answer 51

was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone and founding the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885

Question 52

Planet Uranus was discovered by

Answer 52

William Herschel
The planet Uranus was discovered by William Herschel on March 13, 1781. He discoverd Uranus while surveying stars in the night sky using a telescope that he had built himself. Herschel noticed that one of these “stars” seemed different, and after observing it many more times, noticed that it orbited the Sun.