Prominent Scientists MCQs with Answers

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According to the provided information, Westinghouse is credited as the inventor of electricity.

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Darwin read Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology at the beginning of his voyage on the H.M.S Beagle.

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The Lock and Key Model was proposed by Emil Fischer in 1894 to explain enzyme-substrate specificity.

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The phrase "survival of the fittest" was coined by Herbert Spencer, a British philosopher and sociologist.

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The discoverer of Oxygen, Joseph Priestley, belonged to Britain.

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Giovanni Morgagni is known as the father of anatomical pathology for his pioneering work correlating clinical symptoms with post-mortem findings.

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X-rays were discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen in 1895.

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Ernst Mayr is referred to as the 'Darwin of the 20th Century' for his monumental contributions to evolutionary biology and the modern evolutionary synthesis.

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Galileo was an Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, discovered four satellites of Jupiter, and discovered that the movement of pendulum produces a regular time measurement — all of these achievements are attributed to him.

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Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, a device that protects buildings from lightning strikes by safely conducting the electric charge to the ground.