Trivia Flashcards
Not-so-common chemical engineering and science trivias (for fun)
Who articulated the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
Werner Heisenberg
Who introduced the Wohler synthesis?
Friedrich Wohler
Who discovered I-131?
Glenn Seaborg
Who coined the term ‘electron’?
George Stoney
Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of argon
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Who discovered the chair conformation of cyclohexane?
Odd Hassel
He discovered spontaneous radioactivity in uranium
Antoine Henri Becquerel
Who discovered the structure of benzene?
August Kekule
Who created the first spectroscope?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
Received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air
Sir William Ramsay
Who introduced the concept of chemical potential?
Gilbert N. Lewis
Who discovered the relationship between the elements’ atomic number and the frequency of x-rays generated by bombarding the element with high-energy electrons?
Henry Moseley
Who discovered nuclear fission?
Otto Hahn & Lise Meitner
Best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs
Gilbert N. Lewis
Who invented C-14 dating?
Williard Libby
Who discovered the VSEPR theory?
Ronald Nyholm
They were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for their discovery of the effects of chlorine atoms in ozone depletion
Sherwood Roland
Mario Molina
Who determined the charge of the electron?
Robert Millikan
Who performed the Cathode Ray Tube experiment?
Sir William Crookes and Heinrich Geissler
Proponent of the Law of Definite Proportions
Joseph Louis Proust
Who discovered ten transuranium elements?
Glenn Seaborg
Who discovered the electron?
J.J. Thomson
Godfather of Nuclear Fission
Otto Hahn
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei
Otto Hahn
He postulated that reaction behavior is due to the movement of electrons
Robert Robinson
Who discovered the neutron?
James Chadwick
Who proposed the law of octaves?
John Newlands
Who discovered the element rubidium?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
Who created the first radioactive nuclide (P-30)?
Irene-Joliot Curie & Frederic Joliot
Who coined the term ‘radioactivity’?
Marie Curie
Who explained the essence of entropy 27 years after its introduction?
Ludwig Boltzmann
Who demonstrated that rate constants vary with temperature?
Svante Arrhenius
Who introduced the concept of entropy?
Rudolf Clausius
Who suggested the concept of resonance?
Linus Pauling
Who discovered nuclear transmutation
Ernest Rutherford
Proponent of the Laws of Multiple Proportions
John Dalton
Who discovered hydroboration-oxidation
reaction?
Herbert Brown
Who discovered the element helium during the 1686 solar eclipse?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
Who discovered x-rays?
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen
Proponent of the Law of Conservation of
Mass
Antoine Lavoisier
Who discovered the element caesium?
Robert Bunsen & Gustav Kirchoff
1923 Nobel Physics Laureate who
demonstrated the wave-particle duality
Robert Millikan
Who synthesized urea from the inorganic
compound ammonium cyanate?
Friedrich Wohler
He proposed that energy, like matter, is discontinuous.
Max Planck
Who described electron group geometries?
Ryutaro Tsuchida
They received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics for their research on radiation phenomena
Henri Becquerel
Pierre Curie
Marie Curie
He reacted inorganic carbon disulfide to produce organic acetic acid.
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Who determined the ratio of electric charge to the mass of an electron?
J.J. Thomson
Who discovered free radical addition of HBr
to alkenes?
Morris Kharasch
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
Albert Einstein
1911 Nobel Chemistry Laureate who discovered the elements radium and polonium
Marie Curie
Who discovered the proton?
Ernest Rutherford
Father of Chemical Engineering
George E. Davis
Who coined the term ‘isomers’?
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
What elements were discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers?
In order of discovery: Neon, Krypton, Xenon
Who discovered radon from the radioactive decay of radium?
Sir William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy
Who proposed to arrange the elements by their atomic masses (Independent of the work of Dmitri Mendeleev)
Lothar Meyer
Who isolated helium from the uranium ore, cleveite?
Sir William Ramsay
Who first proposed the actinide concept?
Glenn Seaborg
Father of Nuclear Chemistry
Otto Hahn
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1946 for his discovery that enzymes can be crystallized?
James B. Sumner
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?
Niels Bohr
He introduced the London dispersion forces
Fritz London
They were awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of fullerenes
Richard E. Smalley
Robert F. Curl, Jr.
Harold Kroto
Architect of geodetic domes whose name was the inspiration for buckyballs
Buckminster Fuller
Received the 1961 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his discovery of the chemical pathways of photosynthesis
Melvin Calvin
Introduced the 3,3-sigmatropic rearrangements
Arthur Cope and Elizabeth Hardy
Introduced the first standard screw thread
Joseph Whitworth
Suggested the use of permutit for water softening
Robert Gans
He coined the term polymer to denote molecular substances of high molecular mass formed by polymerization
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
Proponent of the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
Ralph Howard Fowler
Proponent of the First Law of Thermodynamics
Rudolf Clausius
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
James Prescott Joule
Father of Thermodynamics
Sadi Carnot
Who discovered phenolphthalein?
Adolf von Baeyer
Who discovered hydrogen peroxide?
Louis-Jacques Thenard
Who first synthesized lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)?
Albert Hofmann
Who was the first to prepare chlorine gas by oxidizing NaCl with manganese oxide?
C. W. Scheele
Who discovered salicylic acid?
Raffaele Piria
Who discovered acetylsalicylic acid?
Felix Hoffmann
He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the effects of NOx in ozone depletion
Paul Crutzen
