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Influential Physicists - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 61 times
- The average score is 24 of 52
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| General Theory of Relativity. | Albert Einstein | 90%
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| Discovery of polonium and radium. | Marie Curie | 81%
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| Classical mechanics. | Isaac Newton | 79%
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| Uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics. | Werner Heisenberg | 79%
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| Electromagnetic theory. | James Clerk Maxwell | 76%
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| Laws of planetary motion. | Johannes Kepler | 76%
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| Discovery of atomic nucleus. | Ernest Rutherford | 71%
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| Law of electromagnetic induction. | Michael Faraday | 71%
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| Model of the hydrogen atom where the negatively charged electron confined to an atomic shell encircles a small, positively charged atomic nucleus and where an electron jump between orbits is accompanied by an emitted or absorbed amount of electromagnetic energy. | Neils Bohr | 71%
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| First use of a telescope to systematically observe celestial objects and record discoveries. | Galileo Galilei | 69%
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| Geometric mathematical model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | Nicolaus Copernicus | 69%
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| Modern alternating current electricity supply system. | Nikola Tesla | 67%
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| In quantum field theory, diagrams that help interactions to be conveniently visualized. | Richard Feynman | 67%
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| Prediction of the black-body radiation released by black holes, due to quantum effects near the event horizon. | Stephen Hawking | 67%
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| Description of the buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid. | Archimedes | 64%
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| Exclusion principle of fermions. | Wolfgang Pauli | 64%
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| Wave mechanics in quantum theory. | Erwin Schrodinger | 62%
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| Demonstration of the first self-sustaining Nuclear chain reaction. | Enrico Fermi | 57%
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| Circuit laws (dealing with current and voltage). | Gustav Kirchoff | 57%
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| First electric battery. | Allesandro Volta | 55%
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| Law that describes the force interacting between static electrically charged particles. | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 55%
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| Experimental gas law that describes how the pressure of a gas tends to increase as the volume of the container decreases. | Robert Boyle | 55%
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| Explanation about black-body radiation with the development of a law that was a pioneering result of quantum theory. | Max Planck | 52%
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| Relativistic wave equation that describes the behavior of fermions and predicts the existence of antimatter. | Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac | 52%
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| Law of elasticity. | Robert Hooke | 50%
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| Discovery of radioactivity. | Henri Becquerel | 48%
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| Long-distance radio transmission. | Guglielmo Marconi | 45%
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| Derivation of transformation equations which forms the basis of the special relativity theory. | Hendrik Lorentz | 45%
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| Prediction of a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory that explains why some fundamental particles have mass when, based on the symmetries controlling their interactions, they should be massless. | Peter Higgs | 45%
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| Discovery of the neutron. | James Chadwick | 43%
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| Circuital law that relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop. | Andre-Marie Ampere | 40%
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| First great reformulation of classical mechanics. | Joseph-Louis Lagrange | 40%
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| Transport equation that describes the statistical behavior of a thermodynamic system not in a state of equilibrium. | Ludwig Boltzmann | 38%
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| Law relating the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field. | Carl Friedrich Gauss | 36%
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| Principle that states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy. | Daniel Bernoulli | 36%
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| Formulation of the standard interpretation of the probability density function in quantum mechanics. | Max Born | 36%
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| First mathematical theory of light (a wave theory). | Christiaan Huygens | 33%
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| Proof of existence of electromagnetic waves. | Heinrich Hertz | 33%
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| First proposal of the wave of natural electrons. | Louis de Broglie | 33%
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| Identification of the electron. | Joseph John Thompson | 31%
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| Measurement of the electron's charge (together with Harvey Fletcher). | Robert Andrews Millikan | 29%
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| Theorem that states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. | Amalie Emmy Nother | 26%
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| Introduction of the quark, independently of George Zweig. | Murray Gell-Mann | 26%
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| Principle of least action. | William Rowan Hamilton | 26%
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| In thermodynamics, formulation of the laws which deal with the transfer of energy. | James Prescott Joule | 17%
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| First explicit statement of the First Law of Thermodynamics. | Rudolph Clausius | 17%
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| First formulation of the second law of thermodynamics. | Sadi Carnot | 17%
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| Effect that demonstrates the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. | Arthur Compton | 10%
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| Equation that describes the motion of viscous fluid substances (together with Claude-Louis Navier). | George Strokes | 10%
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| Determination of the approximate value of the lower limit to temperature (absolute zero). | William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin | 7%
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| Introduction of azimuthal and spin quantum numbers. | Arnold Sommerfield | 5%
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| Explanation that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes. | Hasan Haytham | 2%
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