The Fellowship by Gribbin Flashcards
Helium has properties very similar to
Neon
Our tern magnet comes from an old term
Lithos magnetis (magnesian stone)….town of magnesia in Greece
After the fall of Rome most of aristotle work survived where
Byzantium, the Easter Roman Empire
Who discovered that electromagnetic radiation is absorbed and emitted as quanta
Max Planck
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
Arianism
The fossilised resin from a variety of trees is known as
Amber
Who proposed the idea of continental drift which in the 1960 evolved into plate tectonics
Alfred wegener
Who suggested that electrons can behave as waves
Louis de Broglie
Who measured the speed of light to within five percent of its modern value
Hippolytus Fizeau
Which famous personality was born in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born
William Shakespeare
The first photograph of nature was first obtained by
Nicephore Niepce
Hristmas lectures for students at the royal institute was started by
Michael Faraday
Which year was Bruno burned at the Stake
1600, the same year that Gilbert’s De Magnate got published
Discoverer of quasars
Maarten schmidt
Name another scientist who also made a reflecting telescope unaware of Leonard Digges
Isaac Newton
Discoverers of the statistical rules that govern the behaviour of quantum particles
Enrich Fermi Paul Dirac
Which physicist in 1880 did experiments to prove the existence of radio waves
Heinrich Hertz
What is electromagnetic induction
A changing magnetic field ( made by a whirling magnet round in a circle) makes an electric field
In the eastern Roman Empire aristotles work were translated into which language
Syriac and then into Arabic
Who invented colour photography
James Clerk Maxwell
Discoverer of the ozone layer
Charles Fabry
The first part of the genetic code was cracked by
Marshall Nirenberg
The first controlled nuclear reaction was achieved by
Enrich fermi
Who first measured the speed of light by timing the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter
Ole roemer
Which English scientist established electricity as anew branch of science distinct from magnetism
William Gilbert
Michael Faraday was first apprenticed to a
Bookbinder
Who discovered the miners safety lamp
Humphrey Davy
Who introduced the idea of lines of force
Michael Faraday
Who introduced the concept of epicycles in the cosmos
Ptolemy in second century AD
Name the two discoverers of oxygen
Carl Scheele Joseph Priestly
Name the British astronomer who invented the astronomical telescope
Leonard Digges
Who observed the bending of starlight during the eclipse of the sun
Arthur Eddington
Name the scientist who first liquefied the gas chlorine
Michael Faraday
Who was William Gilbert’s contemporary
Giordano Bruno
Name the scientist who first defined the species in the modern sense
George Louis Leclerc
Who first invented the pendulum clock
Christian Huygens
What was Gregor Mendel christened name
Astronomers from which country first observed the supernova in 1054
Chinese astronomers
Who formulated all equations describing all electric and magnetic phenomenon
James Clark Maxwell
Name the two scientists who discovered electromagnetic induction
Michael Faraday Joseph Henry
Who coined the term ice age
Louis Agassiz
In which society did the joint publication of Darwin’s and Wallace’s paper take place
Linnaen society
Who first built the radio telescope
Grote Reber
Who was Michael Faraday successor in science
james clerk maxwell
The first American colony was named after which English King
James 1
Who published his first paper on the wave theory of light
Thomas Young
Oxygen has similar properties to which element
Sulphur
Who identified the messenger RNA
Jacques Monod Francis Jacob
Discoverers of the cosmic background radiation
Arno Penzias Robert Wilson
James Clerk Maxwell dies at the age of
48
Mercury barometer was first invented by
Evangelists Torricelli
A naturally accusing magnetic rock is known as
Lodestone
Developers of the Big Bang theory
George Gamow Ralph Alpher Robert Herman
Who synthesized urea from inorganic ingredients
Frederick Wohler
In which journal did Gregor Mendel publish his work
in the proceedings of the natural science society of Brun
Who died while studying the eruption of mount vesuvius
Pliny the elder
In the 13th and 13th century who was mainly responsible for translating Greek exits to Latin
Thomas of aquinas
Who first detected the link between electricity and magnetism
Who first identified helium from its lines in the suns spectrum
Jules Janssen Norman Lockyer
While on tour of Europe with Humphrey Davy which two famous scientists did Michael Faraday meet
Andre Ampere in Paris
allesandra Volta in Italy
Who explained chemistry in terms of quantum Physics
Linus Pauling
Who first explained earthquakes
John Mitchell
Name the scientist who further refined planetary orbits
Pierre de Laplace
Which famous scientist studied the capillary action of liquids
Leonardo da Vinci
Name two scientists who did experiments and found no evidence of ether
Albert Michaelson Edward Morley
What was special about the miners safety lamp
it would detect the presence of dangerous methane and carbon dioxide and unlike other lamps would not ignite these gases
Who was the first person to suggest the existence of dark stars, now known as black holes
John Mitchell
Discoverer of the first pulsar
Jocelyn Bell
Who first pioneered the reflecting and then the refracting telescope
Leonard Digges
Name the scientists who explained how elements are synthesized inside stars
Fred Hoyle Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge William Fowler
The Ancient Greeks called amber as
Elecktron
Which famous personality died in 1564, the same year that Galileo was born
Michael Angelo buanorroti
Who first published the classification of plants
Carl Linnaeus
Name the scientist who discovered₹ the chemical compound benzene
Michael Faraday
Name James Clerk Maxwells famous book
Treatise on electricity and magnetism
Lithium reacts chemically much the same way as
Sodium
Who further extended the quantum theory by developing quantum electrodynamics
Richard Feynman
First use of the word gene was by
Wilhelm Johannsen
The forerunner for science was
Natural philosophy
What was James Clerk Maxwells famous work
maxwells Equations.
he could describe every electrical and magnetic phenomenon in a set of only 4 equations
Who first correctly identified the rings of Saturn
Christian Huygens
Are the magnetic lines of force curved or straight
Which scientist first determined the mass of the earth
Henry Cavendish
Discoverer of the cosmic rays
Victor Hess
Name the book that left a deep impression on Alfred Wallace, this book also set Darwin thinking
Essay on the principles of population by Thomas Malthus
Who showed that the special theory of relativity could be explained in geometrical terms if time is the fourth dimension
Herman Minkowski
Michael Faraday belonged to a sect of Scottish Presbyterians called
Sandemanians
Who was Alfred Russel Wallace’s prospective client to buy his specimens
Name the scientist who invents the term Biology
Jean Baptist’s Lamarck
Who discovered sodium and potassium
Humphrey Davy
Who proposed the law that gases contain equal number of molecules under the same conditions
Amedeo Avogadro
Where was the term chemistry first used
By the scholars of Alexandria
Who first observed that plants come in two sexes
Prosperous Alpini
