Famous Scientists

Which scientist came up with binomial nomenclature?

• Robert Whittaker

• Salvino D'Armate

• Aristotle

• Carolus Linnaeus

Which scientist is credited with discovering and naming cells?

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Robert Hooke

• Zacharias Jansen

• Salvino D'Armate

Which scientist was the first to see bacteria using his microscope which could magnify up to 270 times?

• Salvino D'Armate

• Zacharias Jansen

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Robert Hooke

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

His life was made into the movie "The Imitation Game" featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.

• Stephen Hawking

• Alan Turing

• Nikola Tesla

• Sherlock Holmes

He was known as the "father of the atomic bomb".

• Robert Oppenheimer

• Albert Einstein

• Wernher von Braun

• Harry Truman

Who discovered the "uncertainty principle"?

(Clue: He's Walter White's pseudonym in Breaking Bad)

• Niels Bohr

• Erwin Schrödinger

• Werner Heisenberg

• Ernest Rutherford

Who among these is credited with inventing the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Benjamin Franklin

• Thomas Edison

He was a Nobel laureate known for his work on game theory and differential equations. His struggles with paranoid schizophrenia was depicted in the movie "A Beautiful Mind".

• John von Neumann

• Milton Friedman

• Alan Turing

• John Nash

Who is famous for the Theory of Relativity ?

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilei

• Edwin Hubble

Nicolaus Copernicus

• thought that the sun was the centre

  of the Solar system, not earth.

• invented electrical batteries.

• is best known for discovering radioactivity

  which is used medically in x-rays.

• studied gravity and developed three laws of motion.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1