Discoveries and their Discoverers

Session -3

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Discoveries and their Discoverers

1. Who discovered gravity?

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

2. Who discovered electromagnetism?

Answer: James Clerk Maxwell (1864)

3. Who discovered X-rays?

Answer: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1895)

4. Who discovered penicillin?

Answer: Alexander Fleming (1928)

5. Who discovered the structure of DNA?

Answer: James Watson and Francis Crick (1953)

6. Who discovered radioactivity?

Answer: Henri Becquerel (1896)

7. Who formulated the laws of motion?

Answer: Sir Isaac Newton (1687)

8. Who discovered oxygen?

Answer: Joseph Priestley (1774)

9. Who discovered insulin?

Answer: Frederick Banting and Charles Best (1921)

10. Who developed the polio vaccine?

Answer: Jonas Salk (1952)

11. Who discovered the structure of the atom?

Answer: Ernest Rutherford (1911)

12. Who discovered the neutron?

Answer: James Chadwick (1932)

13. Who discovered the proton?

Answer: Ernest Rutherford (1919)

14. Who discovered black holes?

Answer: David Finkelstein (1958)

15. Who developed the theory of plate tectonics?

Answer: Harry Hess (1962)

16. Who discovered mitochondria

Answer: Richard Altmann (1890)

 

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