iscoveries/Inventions-Scientists Past Papers

3. Discoveries/Inventions-Scientists Past Papers

1. Structure Of DNA: Watson & Crick  

2. Rabies Vaccination: Louis Pasteur

3. Penicillin: Alexander Fleming  

4. Genetic Laws of Heredity: Mendel

5. Vaccination Against Small Pox: Edward Jenner 

6. Solar System: Copernicus

7. Current Electricity: Volta   

8. Telephone: Graham Bell                                      

9. Gramophone: Thomas Edison   

10. Atomic Number: Mosley    

11. Mercury Thermometer: Fahrenheit

12. Dynamite: Alfred Noble   

13. Cell: Robert Hooke   

14. Television: John Baird

15. X-rays: Roentgen   

16. Circulation Of Blood: William Harvey

17. Bicycle: Macmillan   

18. Wireless Telegraphy: Signor Marconi

19. Microorganisms: Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek   

20. Laser: Dr. C. Gilbert

21. Periodic Table: Mendeleev   

22. Radium: Madam Marie Curie

23. Mass/Energy Conversion Equation: Einstein

24. Cement: Joseph Aspdin   

25. Simple Microscope: Hans Janssen and Zacharias Janssen

26. Sulphuric, Nitric and Hydrochloric Acid: Jabir Bin Hayan

27. Jet Engine: Frank Whittle   

28. Electricity: Thomas Edison

29. Computer: Charles Babbage   

30. Lightening Conductor: Benjamin Franklin

31. Semiconductor: Bardeen and Brattain  

32. Uncertainty Principle: Heisenberg

33. Cyclotron: Ernest Lawrence   

34. Electro Magnetic Engine: James Maxwell

35. Internal Combustion Engine: Nikolas August Otto

36. Earth As A Huge Magnet: William Gilbert   

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37. First Person To Orbit Earth: Yuri Gagarin

38. Water: Henry Cavendish  

39. Gravitation: Newton  

40. Magnet: Dr. Gilbert

41. E.M Induction: Faraday    

42. Energy Quanta: Max Planck

43. Vitamin. C Therapy: Linus Pauling  

44. First Clone Of A Sheep: Ian Wilmit

45. Streptomycin: S.A.Waksman  

46. Helical Structure Of Protein: Linus Pauling

47. Polio Vaccine: Jonas Salk   

48. Nylon: Wallace. H Carothers

49. Radioactivity: Becquerel   

50. Safety Match: John Walker   

51. Gun Powder: Roger Bacon

52. Jupiter: Galileo   

53. Neutron: James Chadwick

54. Earth‘s Radius: Eratosthenes    

55. Oxygen: Joseph Priestley

56. Noble Gases: Cavendish   

57. Synthesis Of Gene In Laboratory: Hargobind Khorana

58. Earth Revolves Round The Sun: Copernicus   

59. Binomial Nomenclature: Carl Von Linnaeus

60. North America: Christopher Columbus    

61. Green Land: Robert Peary

62. Transistor: William Bradford Shockley   

63. Typewriter: Sholes

64. Bacteriology: Pasteur  

 65. Laser: Theodore Maiman 

66. Father Of Botany: Theophrastus  

67. Father Of Zoology: Aristotle

68. Father Of Taxonomy: Carolus Linnaeus   

69. Father Of Genetics: Gregor Mendel

70. Cell Theory: Scheilden And Schwann 

71. Cholera Bacillus: Robert Koch

72. Theory Of Relativity And Photoelectric Effect: Einstein   

73. Insulin: Dr. F.G Banting

74. Nucleus: Robert Brown   

75. Chromosome: Waldeyer

76. Ultra Violet Rays: Johann Wilhelm Ritter   

77. Law Of Attraction And Repulsion Between Electric Charges: Coulomb

78. Battery: Alessandro Volta  

79. Electromagnetic theory: James Clerk Maxwell

80. First Person To Televise Pictures Of Moving Objects: John Logie Baird

81. Antiseptic Medicine: Joseph Lister

82. Cotton Gin: Eli Whitney   

83. Big Bang Theory: Georges Lemaitre

84. Electron: J.J Thomson    

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85. Aeroplane: Wilbur and Orville Wright

86. Steam Railway Locomotive: Richard Trevithick

87. Radio: Marconi   

88. Household Vacuum Cleaner: Herbert Cecil Booth

89. Bakelite: Baekeland    

90. Windscreen Wipers: Marry Anderson

91. Ballpoint pen: Laszlo And Georg Biro   

92. Helicopter: Igor Sikorsky

93. DDT: Paul Muller   

94. Blood Banking: Charles Drew

95. AK-47: Mikhail Kalashnikov   

96. Integrated Circuit: Robert Noyce

97. Cellular Phone: Dr. Martin Cooper

98. Vitamins: Funk    99. Uranus: Herschel   

100. Calculating Machine: Blaise Pascal

101. Tuberculosis: Robert Koch   

102. Logarithm Table: John Napier

103. Malaria Parasite: Ronald Ross    

104. Zero: Al Khwarizmi

105. Velocity Of Light: Roomer