FAMOUS SCIENTISTS FOREIGN

Question 1

● founded Individual Psychology
● developed psychotherapy
● established the first child-guidance clinic in Vienna (1921)

Answer 1

Alfred Adler

Question 2

● noted for his important discoveries in the field of magnetism and electricity

Answer 2

Andre Marie Ampere (1723-1836)

Question 3

● father of the electric telephone
● other invention: audiometer

Answer 3

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 4

discovered radioactivity in 1896

Answer 4

Antoine Henri Becquerel

Question 5

● one of France’s and the world’s greatest aeronautical engineers and aviators
● invented the monoplanes
● first man to fly the English channel in an airplane

Answer 5

Louis Bleriot

Question 6

● invented the Braille System

Answer 6

Louis Bruille

Question 7

● discovered radioactivity
● discovered the elements radium anD polonium

Answer 7

Marie Curie

Question 8

atomic theory

Answer 8

John Dalton

Question 9

diesel engine

Answer 9

Rudolf Diesel

Question 10

had planted 1,093 inventions which includes the motion-picture projector,
phonograph, electric-light bulb incandescent, and hundreds of others

Answer 10

Thomas Alva Edison

Question 11

● greatest theoretical physicist of all time
● creator of the theory of relativity
● quantum mechanics

Answer 11

Albert Einstein

Question 12

● discovered the penicillin
● discovered lysozyme, an antibacterial agent in tears and saliva

Answer 12

Alexander Fleming

Question 13

● organized the first library in America
● invented the lightning rod
● first person to identify lightning as an electrical discharge

Answer 13

Benjamin Franklin

Question 14

remembered for his work on free fall, his use of the and his employment of
experimentation

Answer 14

Galileo Galilei

Question 15

● invented Trigonometry
● first cataloguer of stars
● invented longitude and magnitude, linear division of a 360 degrees circle

Answer 15

Hipparchius

Question 16

first to solve the problem of wound infection after surgery

Answer 16

Joseph Lister

Question 17

established the Periodic Table

Answer 17

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Question 18

formulated the laws of universal gravitation

Answer 18

Isaac Newton

Question 19

Founder of microbiology, known primarily for his work on pasteurization of food
and on preventive vaccines

Answer 19

Louis Pasteur

Question 20

discovered the electron and established the theory of electrical nature of matter

Answer 20

Joseph T, Thompson

Question 21

discovered Pluto

Answer 21

Clyde Tombaugh

Question 22

most significant invention was the apochromatic lens of the microscope

Answer 22

Carl Zeiss