Nobel Prize Laureates Quiz

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect?

• Ernest Rutherford

• Max Planck

• Niels Bohr

• Albert Einstein

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Which scientist was the first person to receive two Nobel Prizes in different scientific fields?

• Frederick Sanger

• John Bardeen

• Marie Curie

• Linus Pauling

Who is known as the 'father of femtochemistry'?

• Richard Feynman

• Ahmed Zewail

• Peter Higgs

• Victor Ambros

Which scientist was recognized for the discovery of 'jumping genes' or transposable elements in maize?

• Tu Youyou

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

• Barbara McClintock

• Rosalyn Yalow

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Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964 for determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances?

• Linus Pauling

• Frederick Sanger

• Marie Curie

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Which duo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962 for their discovery of the double helix structure of DNA?

• James Watson and Francis Crick

• John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

• Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun

• Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

Who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024 for their work in computational protein design and protein structure prediction?

• Frederick Sanger

• Linus Pauling

• Ahmed Zewail

• David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper

Which scientist was recognized for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones?

• Tu Youyou

• Barbara McClintock

• Marie Curie

• Rosalyn Yalow