Prominent Scientists MCQs with Answers

Which scientist among the following hypothesized that plant splits water to release oxygen as by-product?

• A.Julius von Sachs
• B.Joseph Priestley
• C.Jan Ingenhousz
• D.Van Neil

Chloroform was discovered by whom?

• A.Louis Pasteur
• B.Alexander Fleming
• C.James Simpson
• D.Joseph Lister

The Chemist who synthesized urea from ammonium cyanate was ?

• A.Wöhler
• B.Berzelius
• C.Lavoisier
• D.Dalton

Charge on an electron was determined by:

• A.J.J. Thomson
• B.Millikan
• C.Rutherford
• D.Chadwick

Who experimented with dissected leg of a frog?

• A.Alessandro Volta
• B.Luigi Galvani
• C.André-Marie Ampère
• D.Georg Simon Ohm

The scientist who correctly measured the velocity of light was _?

• A.Michelson
• B.Newton
• C.Einstein
• D.Galileo

Who is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?

• A.Marie Curie
• B.Albert Einstein
• C.Linus Pauling
• D.Dorothy Hodgkin

Past Paper MCQ

Who discovered laughing gas?

• A.Joseph Priestley
• B.Humphry Davy
• C.Antoine Lavoisier
• D.Carl Scheele

Who is considered the founder of modern nursing?

• A.Florence Nightingale
• B.Marie Curie
• C.Clara Barton
• D.Elizabeth Blackwell

For what is Johannes Kepler best known?

• A.Theory of Relativity
• B.Laws of planetary motion
• C.Discovery of gravity
• D.Invention of the telescope