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Trivia Flashcards

Not-so-common chemical engineering and science trivias (for fun)

1
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Who articulated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?

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Werner Heisenberg

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2
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Who introduced the Wohler synthesis?

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Friedrich Wohler

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3
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Who discovered I-131?

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Glenn Seaborg

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4
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Who coined the term ‘electron’?

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George Stoney

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5
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Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of argon

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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

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6
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Who discovered the chair conformation of cyclohexane?

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Odd Hassel

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7
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He discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium

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Antoine Henri Becquerel

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8
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Who discovered the structure of benzene?

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August Kekule

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9
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Who created the first spectroscope?

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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

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10
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Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in 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 discovered the relationship between the elements’ atomic number and the frequency of x-rays generated by bombarding the element with high-energy electrons?

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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

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14
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Best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs

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Gilbert N. Lewis

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15
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Who invented C-14 dating?

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Williard Libby

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16
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Who discovered the VSEPR theory?

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Ronald Nyholm

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17
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They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for their discovery of the effects of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion

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Sherwood Roland
Mario Molina

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18
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Who determined the charge of the electron?

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Robert Millikan

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19
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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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20
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Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions

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Joseph Louis Proust

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21
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Who discovered ten transuranium elements?

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Glenn Seaborg

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22
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Who discovered the electron?

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J.J. Thomson

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23
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Godfather of Nuclear Fission

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Otto Hahn

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24
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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei

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Otto Hahn

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25
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He postulated that reaction behavior is due to the movement of electrons

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Robert Robinson

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26
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Who discovered the neutron?

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James Chadwick

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27
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Who proposed the law of octaves?

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John Newlands

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28
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Who discovered the element rubidium?

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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

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29
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Who created the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?

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Irene-Joliot Curie & Frederic Joliot

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30
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Who coined the term ‘radioactivity’?

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Marie Curie

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31
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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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32
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Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?

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Svante Arrhenius

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33
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Who introduced the concept of entropy?

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Rudolf Clausius

34
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Who suggested the concept of resonance?

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Linus Pauling

35
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Who discovered nuclear transmutation

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Ernest Rutherford

36
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Proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions

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John Dalton

37
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Who discovered hydroboration-oxidation
reaction?

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Herbert Brown

38
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Who discovered the element helium during the 1686 solar eclipse?

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Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

39
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Who discovered x-rays?

A

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen

40
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Proponent of the Law of Conservation of
Mass

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Antoine Lavoisier

41
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Who discovered the element caesium?

A

Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff

42
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1923 Nobel Physics Laureate who
demonstrated the wave-particle duality

A

Robert Millikan

43
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Who synthesized urea from the inorganic
compound ammonium cyanate?

A

Friedrich Wohler

44
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He proposed that energy, like matter, is discontinuous.

A

Max Planck

45
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Who described electron group geometries?

A

Ryutaro Tsuchida

46
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They received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radiation phenomena

A

Henri Becquerel
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie

47
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He reacted inorganic carbon disulfide to produce organic acetic acid.

A

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

48
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Who determined the ratio of electric charge to the mass of an electron?

A

J.J. Thomson

49
Q

Who discovered free radical addition of HBr
to alkenes?

A

Morris Kharasch

50
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Received the Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect

A

Albert Einstein

51
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1911 Nobel Chemistry Laureate who discovered the elements radium and polonium

A

Marie Curie

52
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Who discovered the proton?

A

Ernest Rutherford

53
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Father of Chemical Engineering

A

George E. Davis

54
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Who coined the term ‘isomers’?

A

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

55
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What elements were discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers?

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In order of discovery: Neon, Krypton, Xenon

56
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Who discovered radon from the radioactive decay of radium?

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Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy

57
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Who proposed to arrange the elements by their atomic masses (Independent of the work of Dmitri Mendeleev)

A

Lothar Meyer

58
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Who isolated helium from the uranium ore, cleveite?

A

Sir William Ramsay

59
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Who first proposed the actinide concept?

A

Glenn Seaborg

60
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Father of Nuclear Chemistry

A

Otto Hahn

61
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Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized?

A

James B. Sumner

62
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Who proposed the planetary model of the atom in which electrons located away from the nucleus possess more energy than those closer to the nucleus?

A

Niels Bohr

63
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He introduced the London dispersion forces

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Fritz London

64
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They were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of fullerenes

A

Richard E. Smalley
Robert F. Curl, Jr.
Harold Kroto

65
Q

Architect of geodetic domes whose name was the inspiration for buckyballs

A

Buckminster Fuller

66
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Received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis

A

Melvin Calvin

67
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Introduced the 3,3-sigmatropic rearrangements

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Arthur Cope and Elizabeth Hardy

68
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Introduced the first standard screw thread

A

Joseph Whitworth

69
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Suggested the use of permutit for water softening

A

Robert Gans

70
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He coined the term polymer to denote molecular substances of high molecular mass formed by polymerization

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Jöns Jacob Berzelius

71
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Proponent of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

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Ralph Howard Fowler

72
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Proponent of the First Law of Thermodynamics

A

Rudolf Clausius

73
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He proved the law of conservation of energy by performing the experiment wherein energy is added to water as work but is extracted as heat

A

James Prescott Joule

74
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Father of Thermodynamics

A

Sadi Carnot

75
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Who discovered phenolphthalein?

A

Adolf von Baeyer

76
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Who discovered hydrogen peroxide?

A

Louis-Jacques Thenard

77
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Who first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?

A

Albert Hofmann

78
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Who was the first to prepare chlorine gas by oxidizing NaCl with manganese oxide?

A

C. W. Scheele

79
Q

Who discovered salicylic acid?

A

Raffaele Piria

80
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Who discovered acetylsalicylic acid?

A

Felix Hoffmann

81
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He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the effects of NOx in ozone depletion

A

Paul Crutzen

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