(CAR) Discoveries and Inventions

Question 1

Alfred Wallace

Answer 1

• He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct.
• The research of British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) played a pivotal role in developing the theory of natural selection.
• But over time, Charles Darwin became almost universally thought of as the father of evolution.

Question 2

Linus Pauling?

Answer 2

Linus Pauling —
‘The Vitamin C Man’ One of the most famous forerunners of high dose vitamin C treatment for colds and other disease was Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994), a physical chemist and peace activist who won two Nobel Prize awards; one in chemistry in 1954, followed by a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962

Question 3

Alexander Fleming?

Answer 3

Alexander Fleming. … In 1928 Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) discovered penicillin, made from the Penicillium notatum mold, but he did not receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery until 1945

Question 4

Dr. Ian Wilmut

Answer 4

An embryologist and best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly

Question 5

Streptomycin was discovered by

Answer 5

Selman Waksman

Streptomycin is an antibiotic used to treat a number of bacterial infections

Question 6

_____ recieved Nobel Prize for Unravelling the helical structure of proteins

Answer 6

Linus Pauling 
(In the 1950's, Linus Pauling became known as the founder of molecular biology due to his discovery of the spiral structure of proteins (Taton, 1964). Pauling's discoveries contributed to Watson and Crick's breakthrough of the DNA double helix.)

Question 7

Who invented the polio vaccine (Oral) ?

Answer 7

• The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955.
• The oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961.

Question 8

Television was invented by

Answer 8

John Logie Baird
John Logie Baird is the person who is given credit for inventing the television for the very first time. He experimented in an attic room in London for years until he succeeded in transmitting an old, moving, grayscale image of a talking ventriloquist dummy on a screen in 1925. He called it ‘the Televisor’

Question 9

Transformer was invented by

Answer 9

Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri, Károly Zipernowsky of the Austro-Hungarian Empire First designed and used the transformer in both experimental, and commercial systems.

Question 10

Steam Engine was invented by

Answer 10

James Watt FRS FRSE (30 January 1736 (19 January 1736 OS) – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1781, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution

Question 11

First rocket was invented by

Answer 11

n 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-propellant rocket. Due to secrecy, the 1926 rocket did not have much influence on the later developments.

Question 12

Safety Razor was invented by

Answer 12

In 1895, by King Camp Gillette

Question 13

Teflon used for coating non-stick kitchenwareis the product of chance discovery by the scientist

Answer 13

Teflon was Invented by Accident. Today I found out Teflon was invented by accident. The man who accidentally invented it was Dr. Roy Plunket

Question 14

First chemical analysis of protoplasm was made by

Answer 14

Punnet and Bateson

Question 15

Sir William Henry Perkin?

Answer 15

Sir William Henry Perkin, FRS was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first synthetic organic dye, mauveine, made from aniline.

Question 16

William Siemens?

Answer 16

Open-hearth process, also called Siemens-martin Process, steelmaking technique that for most of the 20th century accounted for the major part of all steel made in the world. William Siemens

Question 17

The theory of mutation was given by

Answer 17

Hugo De Vires

Question 18

Who invented motorcycle ?

Answer 18

In 1885, Gottlieb Daimler of Germany invented the first gas-engined motorcycle. The gas engine was attached to a wooden bike

Question 19

Who invented the cellophane?

Answer 19

Jacques E. Brandenberger

Question 20

Electron was discovered by

Answer 20

Ernest Rutherford

Question 21

Who discoverd the neutron?

Answer 21

James Chadwick

Question 22

Radium was discovered by

Answer 22

Marie Skłodowska Curie
(a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice, the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences)

Question 23

Who discovered X-rays

Answer 23

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. Although, many people had observed the effects of X-ray beams before, but Roentgen was the first one to study them systematically.)

Question 24

Development of wireless telegraphy was done by

Answer 24

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 25

Who discovered the positron?

Answer 25

Carl David Anderson discovered the positron on August 2, 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936.

Question 26

Who discovered anti-septic surgery

Answer 26

Joseph Lister
(Joseph Lister did not discover a new drug but he did make the like between lack of cleanliness in hospitals and deaths after operations. For this reason, he is known as the ‘Father of Antiseptic Surgery’)

Question 27

Who invented the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 27

Edward Teller
(after the Soviets successfully detonated an atomic bomb in 1949, President Harry S. Truman ordered the creation of a hydrogen bomb project. With the help of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, Dr. Teller developed a model for the hydrogen bomb known as the Teller-Ulam design)

Question 28

Father of Neutron Bomb?

Answer 28

Samuel Theodore Cohen was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb

Question 29

Telegraphy was discovered by

Answer 29

Samuel Morse
(Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.)

Question 30

optical fibre was invented by

Answer 30

Narinder Singh Kapany

Question 31

The world’s first radar system was invented by

Answer 31

A.H Taylor and Leo C. Young

Question 32

who invented lift?

Answer 32

Elisha Otis 
 (the "Vertical Screw Railway" was installed in a few buildings in New York and Philadelphia. The first elevator shaft was put in a building before Elisha Otis designed his safe, steam powered elevator. This was done in 1853 at the Cooper Union Foundation building in New York.)

Question 33

Jet Engine was invented by

Answer 33

Frank Whittle

Question 34

who was the first to observe ultraviolet rays

Answer 34

Johann Wilhelm Ritter, 1801
-UV radiation was discovered in 1801 when the German physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter observed that invisible rays just beyond the violet end of the visible spectrum darkened silver chloride-soaked paper more quickly than violet light itself.

Question 35

Stephen Hales?

Answer 35

He recongnized in 1727 that sunlight and air are impn for the growth of plants

Question 36

who discovered the blood groups?

Answer 36

Karl Landsteiner
(The ABO blood group system is widely credited to have been discovered by the Austrian scientist Karl Landsteiner, who identified the O, A, and B blood types in 1900.)

Question 37

The theory of inheritance of acquired characters was pronounced by

Answer 37

Gregor Mendel
(Father of Genetics. 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 38

Radioactivity was discovered by

Answer 38

Henri Becquerel
(Marie Curie became the first woman to be awarded the nobel prize and the first person to obtain two nobel prizes when she won the prize for the discovery of Polonium and Radium in 1911. Though it was Henri Becquerel that discovered radioactivity, it was Marie Curie who coined the term.)

Question 39

John Walker invented

Answer 39

Safety Match

Question 40

Mercury thermometer was invented by

Answer 40

Galileo

Question 41

Gun Powder was invented by

Answer 41

Roger Bacon
(Roger Bacon. … Bacon’s major work, the Opus Majus, was sent to Pope Clement IV in Rome in 1267 upon the pope’s request. Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula)

Question 42

____ discovered the satellites of Jupiter

Answer 42

Galileo

Question 43

Gene was first isolated by

Answer 43

Har Gobind Khorana

. In 1972, Khorana made a second breakthrough, constructing the world’s first synthetic gene.

Question 44

Typewriter was invented by

Answer 44

The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes,

Question 45

Transistor was invented by

Answer 45

William Shockley

Question 46

Telephone was invented by

Answer 46

An early voice communicating device was invented around 1854 by Antonio Meucci, who called it a telettrofono. … resolution by the US Congress was promptly followed by a Canada legislative motion by Canada’s 37th Parliament, declaring Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone

Question 47

___ was the first to measure earth’s radius

Answer 47

Eratosthenes
(Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth without leaving Egypt. He knew that at local noon on the summer solstice in Syene (modern Aswan, Egypt), the Sun was directly overhead.)

Question 48

____ scale was devised by celcius

Answer 48

Centigrade

Question 49

Oxygen was discovered by

Answer 49

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.)

Question 50

____ scientist credited with discovery of noble gases.

Answer 50

Henry Cavendish

Question 51

____ scientist was responsible for binomial nomenclature.

Answer 51

Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature