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Important Names Flashcards

1
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Who proposed the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Werner Heisenberg

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2
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What analysis method is associated with Friedrich Wohler?

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Wohler Analysis

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3
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Which isotope is known as Iodine 131?

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Glenn Seaborg

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4
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Who introduced the term ‘Electron’?

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George Johnstone Stoney

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5
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Who discovered Argon?

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John William Strutt and 3rd Baron Rayleigh

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6
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Who discovered the Cyclohexane Chair Confirmation?

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Odd Hassel

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7
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Who is credited with discovering Uranium’s spontaneous radioactivity?

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

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8
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Who proposed the structure of Benzene?

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August Kekule

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9
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Who were the first to create a spectroscope?

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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

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10
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Who discovered inert gaseous elements in the air?

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Sir William Ramsay

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11
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Who introduced the concept of Chemical Potential?

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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12
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Who established the relationship between an element’s atomic number and the frequency of x-rays?

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Henry Moseley

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13
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Who discovered Nuclear Fission?

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Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman

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14
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Who discovered covalent bonds and electron pairs?

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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15
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Who invented Carbon-14 dating?

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Willard Libby

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16
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Who discovered VSEPR Theory?

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Ronald Nyholm

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17
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Who studied the effect of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion?

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Sherwood Roland and Mario Molina

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18
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Who performed the Cathode Ray Tube experiment?

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Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler

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19
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Who formulated the Law of Definite Proportions?

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Joseph Louis Proust

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20
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Who discovered ten transuranium elements?

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Glenn Seaborg

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21
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Who discovered the electron?

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JJ Thomson

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22
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Who is known as the Godfather of Nuclear Fission?

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Otto Hahn

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23
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Who investigated the fission of heavy nuclei?

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Otto Hahn

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24
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Who stated that reaction behavior is due to the movement of electrons?

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Robert Robinson

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25
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Who discovered the neutron?

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James Chadwick

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26
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Who proposed the Law of Octaves?

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John Newlands

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27
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Who discovered Rubidium?

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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

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28
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Who was responsible for creating the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?

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Irene Joliot Curie and Frederic Joliot

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29
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Who coined the term ‘Radioactivity’?

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Marie Curie

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30
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Who explained the essence of entropy 27 years after its introduction?

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Ludwig Boltzmann

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31
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Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?

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Svante Arrhenius

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32
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Who introduced the concept of entropy?

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Rudolf Clausius

33
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Who introduced the resonance concept?

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Linus Pauling

34
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Who discovered Nuclear Transmutation?

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Ernest Rutherford

35
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Who was a proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions?

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John Dalton

36
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Who discovered the hydroboration-oxidation reaction?

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Herbert Brown

37
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Who discovered Helium during the 1686 solar eclipse?

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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

38
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Who discovered X-rays?

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Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen

39
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Who proposed the Law of Conservation of Mass?

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Antoine Lavoisier

40
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Who discovered the element Caesium?

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Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchoff

41
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Who demonstrated wave-particle duality?

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Robert Millikan

42
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Who synthesized urea from inorganic compound ammonium cyanate?

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Friedrich Wohler

43
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Who proposed that energy, like matter, is discontinuous?

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Max Planck

44
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Who described electron group geometries?

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Ryutaro Tsuchida

45
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Who conducted research on radiation phenomena?

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Henri Becquerel, Marie and Pierre Curie

46
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Who reacted inorganic carbon disulfide to produce organic acetic acid?

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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

47
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Who discovered the ratio of electric charge and mass of the electron?

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JJ Thomson

48
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Who discovered the free radical addition of HBr to alkenes?

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Morris Kharasch

49
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Who made significant contributions to theoretical physics and the photoelectric effect?

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Albert Einstein

50
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Who discovered Radium and Polonium?

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Marie Curie

51
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Who discovered the proton?

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James Chadwick

52
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Who is known as the father of Chemical Engineering?

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George E. Davis

53
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Who introduced the term ‘Isomers’?

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Jons Jacob Berzelius

54
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Which elements were discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers?

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Neon
Krypton
Xenon

55
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Who discovered Radon from Radium radioactivity decay?

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Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy

56
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Who proposed the arrangement of elements by atomic masses independently of Mendeleev?

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Lothar Meyer

57
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Who isolated Helium from uranium ore, clevelite?

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Sir William Ramsay

58
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Who first proposed the actinide concept?

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Glenn Seaborg

59
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Who is known as the father of Nuclear Chemistry?

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Otto Hahn

60
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Who discovered that enzymes can be crystallized?

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James Sumner

61
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Who proposed the planetary model of the atom?

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Niels Bohr

62
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Who discovered fullerenes?

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Richard Smalley, Robert Curl and Harold Kroto

63
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Who is known as the architect of geodetic domes, also called Buckyballs?

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Buckminster Fuller

64
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Who discovered the chemical pathways of photosynthesis?

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Melvin Calvin

65
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Who introduced the 3,3 sigmatropic rearrangement?

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Arthur Cope and Elizabeth Hardy

66
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Who established the first standard for screw threads?

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Joseph Whitworth

67
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Who suggested the use of Permutit for water softening?

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Robert Gans

68
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Who introduced the term ‘Polymer’?

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Jons Jacob Berzelius

69
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Who was the proponent of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics?

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Ralph Howard Fowler

70
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Who was the proponent of the first law of thermodynamics?

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Rudolf Clausius

71
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Who proved the law of conservation of energy by converting energy into water and extracting it as heat?

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James Prescott Joule

72
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Who is known as the father of Thermodynamics?

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Sadi Carnot

73
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Who discovered Phenolphthalein?

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Adolf Von Baeyer

74
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Who discovered Hydrogen Peroxide?

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Louis Jacques Thenard

75
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Who first synthesized Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?

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Albert Hofmann

76
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Who first prepared chlorine gas by oxidizing NaCl with Manganese Oxide (MnO)?

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C.W. Scheele

77
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Who discovered Salicylic Acid?

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Raffaele Piria

78
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Who synthesized Acetylsalicylic Acid?

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Felix Hoffmann

79
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Who discovered the NOx effect in ozone depletion?

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Paul Crutzen

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