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Members of the 1927 Solvay Conference - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 21 times
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Answer Stats
| Nationality | Scientific Contribution | Nobel Prize? | Answer | % Correct |
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| German | Special & General Relativity | 1921 - Physics | Albert Einstein | 100%
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| Polish-French | Pioneering research on Radioactivity, discovering 2 new elements | 1903 - Physics 1911 - Chemistry | Marie Curie | 100%
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| Danish | Developed the model of the atom with discrete electron energy levels | 1922 - Physics | Niels Bohr | 92%
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| Austrian | Formulised an equation to calculation the wave function and created a thought experiment with a cat | 1933 - Physics | Erwin Schrodinger | 77%
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| German | Came up with the uncertainty principle | 1932 - Physics | Werner Heisenberg | 62%
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| German | A very small constant in quantum mechanics is named after him | 1918 - Physics | Max Planck | 54%
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| English | Discovered the relativistic eqaution for the electron | 1933 - Physics | Paul Dirac | 54%
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| Austrian | Came up with the exclusion principle | 1945 - Physics | Wolfgang Pauli | 46%
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| American | Named after an effect, which demonstrates the particle nature of electromagentic radiation | 1927 - Physics | Arthur Compton | 38%
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| Dutch | Derived the transformation equations underpinning the theory of relativity | 1902 - Physics | Hendrik Lorentz | 38%
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| French | Hypothesised the wave nature of particles | 1929 - Physics | Louis De Broglie | 31%
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| German | Alongside another physicist formulated matrix mechanics into quantum mechanics | 1954 - Physics | Max Born | 31%
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| Scottish | The Invention of the cloud chamber | 1927 - Physics | Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | 23%
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| Swiss | Inventor of the first bathyscraphe | Auguste Piccard | 15%
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| British | Thermionic Emission | 1928 - Physics | Owen Willans Richardson | 15%
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| Dutch | Contributions to statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics | Paul Ehrenfest | 15%
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| French | Came up with the Twin paradox (a thought expermient in special relativity) | Paul Langevin | 15%
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| Swiss | Studiesd Optical Rotatory Dispersion | Charles Eugene Guye | 8%
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| French | Showed Potassium and Rubidium are naturally radioactive | Emile Henriot | 8%
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| American | Inventor of the high-vacuum tube | 1932 - Chemistry | Irving Langmuir | 8%
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| Austrian-British | X-Ray Diffraction | 1915 - Physics | Lawrence Bragg | 8%
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| Danish | Studied molecular gas flow | Martin Knudsen | 8%
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| Dutch-American | Application of Dipole moments to charges | 1936 - Chemistry | Peter Debye | 8%
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| Belgian | The Father of Irreversible Thermodynamics | Theophile de Donder | 8%
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| Belgian | Published 'The Reports of Energy and Mass After Ernest Solvay' in 1924 | Edouard Herzen | 0%
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| Dutch | Introduced the concept of renormalisation into quantum field theory | Hendrik Anthony Kramers | 0%
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| Belgian | Worked at Kamerlingh Onne's laboratory in Leiden from 1894-1906 | Jules-Emile Verschaffelt | 0%
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| French | Studies the scattering of light with a frequency change | Leon Brillouin | 0%
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| English | Worked on statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars in 1926 | Ralph H. Fowler | 0%
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