British Scientists Multiple Choice Quiz

1. Astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell was (in 1967) the first person to observe which type of astronomical object?

2. Who in 1836 invented a cage (now named after him) which can be used to shield sensitive electronic equipment from electromagnetic fields?

3. Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction imaging in the 1950s to help to reveal the structure of which substance?

4. Stephen Hawking theorised in 1974 that which astronomical bodies should emit radiation (Hawking radiation)?

5. Ada Lovelace (working with Charles Babbage in the first half of the 19th century) can be considered one of the first... ?

6. Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) is best known as the inventor of what?

7. We have Harriet Chick to blame for discovering the nutritional cause of rickets (1919), ensuring children were plied with which allegedly ghastly-tasting foodstuff?

8. Sir Humphry Davy is famous for his safety 'Davy lamp' and for isolating many elements for the first time, using electrochemistry. But where was he from?

9. In the 1820s, following her experiments into magnetism, Mary Somerville was only the second woman to have a paper published by the Royal Society. Which British-German astronomer had beaten her to it?

10. John Dalton (born 1766) established his 'law of partial pressures' relating to mixtures of gases, and is also famous for his work on atomic theory. But his work on another subject has led to it becoming known as 'Daltonism':