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Significant People Flashcards

1
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Law of Conservation of Mass

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Antoine Lavoisier

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2
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Law of Definite Proportions

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Joseph Louis Proust

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3
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Law of Multiple Proportions

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John Dalton

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4
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He discovered Electron

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JJ Thomson

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5
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He coined the word “Electron”

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George Stoney

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6
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He computed the value of e- (1.6022×10-¹⁹)

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Robert Millikon

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7
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He discovered Proton

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Ernest Rutherford

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8
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He discovered Neutron

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James Chadwick

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9
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Quantum Theory

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Max Planck

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10
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First spectroscope

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Robert Bunsen &
Gustav Kirchoff

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11
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Pauli’s Exclusion Principle

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Wolfgang Pauli

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12
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Hund’s Rule

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Friedrich Hund

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13
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Uncertainty Principle

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Werner Heisenburg

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14
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Wohler Synthesis (Isomerism)

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Friedrich Wohler

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15
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Carbon disulfide -> acetic acid

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Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

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16
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Concept of Resonance

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Linus Pauling

17
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Cyclic structure of Benzene

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August Kekule

18
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Octet Rule, Covalent Bond, Lewis Structure

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Gilbert Lewis

19
Q

Movement of e- in order

A

Robert Robinson

20
Q

Phenomena of Radiation

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Henri Becquerel

21
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Coined the term “Radioactivity”
Discovered Polonium and Radium

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Marie Curie

22
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Father of Nuclear Chemistry
Godfather of Nuclear Fission

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Otto Hahn

23
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Discovered Uranium, Thorium, Protactinium, and Radium (along with Otto Hahn)

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Lise Meitner

24
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Transmutation
Discovered Alpha & Beta Rays

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Ernest Rutherford

25
Q

Phosphorous-30 (first radioactive nuclide)

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Irene-Joliot Curie &
Frederic Joliot

26
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First person to die due to Acute Radiation Syndrome

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Alexander Litvinenko

27
Q

Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
(Thermal Equilibrium)

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Ralph Howard Fowler

28
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First Law of Thermodynamics
(Conservation of Energy)
dU = dQ + dW

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Rudolf Emmanuel Clausius

29
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Second Law of Thermodynamics
(Entropy of the universe increases)

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Rudolf Emmanuel Clausius

30
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Third Law of Thermodynamics
(Entropy of a system approaches a constant as temperature approached absolute zero)

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Walther Nernst

31
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Serendipity

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Walpole

32
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Rubber

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Goodyear

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