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The Fellowship by Gribbin Flashcards

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Helium has properties very similar to

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Neon

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Our tern magnet comes from an old term

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Lithos magnetis (magnesian stone)….town of magnesia in Greece

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After the fall of Rome most of aristotle work survived where

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Byzantium, the Easter Roman Empire

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Who discovered that electromagnetic radiation is absorbed and emitted as quanta

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Max Planck

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Bruno belonged to a sect that believed that Christianity was a corruption of the old Egyptian religion in which the sun featured as a god. Name this sect

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Arianism

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The fossilised resin from a variety of trees is known as

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Amber

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Who proposed the idea of continental drift which in the 1960 evolved into plate tectonics

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Alfred wegener

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Who suggested that electrons can behave as waves

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Louis de Broglie

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Who measured the speed of light to within five percent of its modern value

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Hippolytus Fizeau

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Which famous personality was born in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born

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William Shakespeare

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The first photograph of nature was first obtained by

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Nicephore Niepce

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12
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Hristmas lectures for students at the royal institute was started by

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Michael Faraday

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13
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Which year was Bruno burned at the Stake

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1600, the same year that Gilbert’s De Magnate got published

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Discoverer of quasars

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Maarten schmidt

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15
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Name another scientist who also made a reflecting telescope unaware of Leonard Digges

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Isaac Newton

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Discoverers of the statistical rules that govern the behaviour of quantum particles

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Enrich Fermi Paul Dirac

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17
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Which physicist in 1880 did experiments to prove the existence of radio waves

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Heinrich Hertz

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18
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What is electromagnetic induction

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A changing magnetic field ( made by a whirling magnet round in a circle) makes an electric field

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In the eastern Roman Empire aristotles work were translated into which language

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Syriac and then into Arabic

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20
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Who invented colour photography

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James Clerk Maxwell

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21
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Discoverer of the ozone layer

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Charles Fabry

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The first part of the genetic code was cracked by

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Marshall Nirenberg

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23
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The first controlled nuclear reaction was achieved by

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Enrich fermi

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Who first measured the speed of light by timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter

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Ole roemer

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Which English scientist established electricity as anew branch of science distinct from magnetism

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William Gilbert

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26
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Michael Faraday was first apprenticed to a

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Bookbinder

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27
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Who discovered the miners safety lamp

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Humphrey Davy

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28
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Who introduced the idea of lines of force

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Michael Faraday

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29
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Who introduced the concept of epicycles in the cosmos

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Ptolemy in second century AD

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30
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Name the two discoverers of oxygen

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Carl Scheele Joseph Priestly

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31
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Name the British astronomer who invented the astronomical telescope

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Leonard Digges

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32
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Who observed the bending of starlight during the eclipse of the sun

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Arthur Eddington

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33
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Name the scientist who first liquefied the gas chlorine

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Michael Faraday

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34
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Who was William Gilbert’s contemporary

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Giordano Bruno

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35
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Name the scientist who first defined the species in the modern sense

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George Louis Leclerc

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36
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Who first invented the pendulum clock

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Christian Huygens

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37
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What was Gregor Mendel christened name

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38
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Astronomers from which country first observed the supernova in 1054

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Chinese astronomers

39
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Who formulated all equations describing all electric and magnetic phenomenon

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James Clark Maxwell

40
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Name the two scientists who discovered electromagnetic induction

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Michael Faraday Joseph Henry

41
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Who coined the term ice age

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Louis Agassiz

42
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In which society did the joint publication of Darwin’s and Wallace’s paper take place

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Linnaen society

43
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Who first built the radio telescope

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Grote Reber

44
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Who was Michael Faraday successor in science

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james clerk maxwell

45
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The first American colony was named after which English King

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James 1

46
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Who published his first paper on the wave theory of light

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Thomas Young

47
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Oxygen has similar properties to which element

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Sulphur

48
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Who identified the messenger RNA

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Jacques Monod Francis Jacob

49
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Discoverers of the cosmic background radiation

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Arno Penzias Robert Wilson

50
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James Clerk Maxwell dies at the age of

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48

51
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Mercury barometer was first invented by

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Evangelists Torricelli

52
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A naturally accusing magnetic rock is known as

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Lodestone

53
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Developers of the Big Bang theory

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George Gamow Ralph Alpher Robert Herman

54
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Who synthesized urea from inorganic ingredients

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Frederick Wohler

55
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In which journal did Gregor Mendel publish his work

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in the proceedings of the natural science society of Brun

56
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Who died while studying the eruption of mount vesuvius

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Pliny the elder

57
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In the 13th and 13th century who was mainly responsible for translating Greek exits to Latin

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Thomas of aquinas

58
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Who first detected the link between electricity and magnetism

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59
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Who first identified helium from its lines in the suns spectrum

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Jules Janssen Norman Lockyer

60
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While on tour of Europe with Humphrey Davy which two famous scientists did Michael Faraday meet

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Andre Ampere in Paris

allesandra Volta in Italy

61
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Who explained chemistry in terms of quantum Physics

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Linus Pauling

62
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Who first explained earthquakes

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John Mitchell

63
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Name the scientist who further refined planetary orbits

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Pierre de Laplace

64
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Which famous scientist studied the capillary action of liquids

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Leonardo da Vinci

65
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Name two scientists who did experiments and found no evidence of ether

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Albert Michaelson Edward Morley

66
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What was special about the miners safety lamp

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it would detect the presence of dangerous methane and carbon dioxide and unlike other lamps would not ignite these gases

67
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Who was the first person to suggest the existence of dark stars, now known as black holes

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John Mitchell

68
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Discoverer of the first pulsar

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Jocelyn Bell

69
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Who first pioneered the reflecting and then the refracting telescope

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Leonard Digges

70
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Name the scientists who explained how elements are synthesized inside stars

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Fred Hoyle Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge William Fowler

71
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The Ancient Greeks called amber as

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Elecktron

72
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Which famous personality died in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born

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Michael Angelo buanorroti

73
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Who first published the classification of plants

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Carl Linnaeus

74
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Name the scientist who discovered₹ the chemical compound benzene

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Michael Faraday

75
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Name James Clerk Maxwells famous book

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Treatise on electricity and magnetism

76
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Lithium reacts chemically much the same way as

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Sodium

77
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Who further extended the quantum theory by developing quantum electrodynamics

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Richard Feynman

78
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First use of the word gene was by

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Wilhelm Johannsen

79
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The forerunner for science was

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Natural philosophy

80
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What was James Clerk Maxwells famous work

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maxwells Equations.

he could describe every electrical and magnetic phenomenon in a set of only 4 equations

81
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Who first correctly identified the rings of Saturn

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Christian Huygens

82
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Are the magnetic lines of force curved or straight

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83
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Which scientist first determined the mass of the earth

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Henry Cavendish

84
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Discoverer of the cosmic rays

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Victor Hess

85
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Name the book that left a deep impression on Alfred Wallace, this book also set Darwin thinking

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Essay on the principles of population by Thomas Malthus

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Who showed that the special theory of relativity could be explained in geometrical terms if time is the fourth dimension

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Herman Minkowski

87
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Michael Faraday belonged to a sect of Scottish Presbyterians called

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Sandemanians

88
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Who was Alfred Russel Wallace’s prospective client to buy his specimens

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89
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Name the scientist who invents the term Biology

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Jean Baptist’s Lamarck

90
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Who discovered sodium and potassium

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Humphrey Davy

91
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Who proposed the law that gases contain equal number of molecules under the same conditions

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Amedeo Avogadro

92
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Where was the term chemistry first used

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By the scholars of Alexandria

93
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Who first observed that plants come in two sexes

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Prosperous Alpini

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