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Inventors and Scientists - Scientists

Science is such a huge subject covering all sorts of weird and wonderful things! This picture quiz focuses on ten famous scientists past and present. See how much you know by playing the quiz and you might find out something new in the process.

  1. Where is Alexander Fleming buried?

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    • Born: 6 August 1881
    • Place: Lochfield, Scotland
    • Nationality: Scottish
    • He was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist
    • His best-known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme and penicillin
    • His only child, Robert Fleming, became a general medical practitioner
    • Fleming was knighted, as Knights Bachelor, in 1944

  2. Who described Carl Sagan as one of only two people he ever met whose intellect surpassed his own?

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    • Born: 9 November 1934
    • Place: Brooklyn, New York
    • Nationality: American
    • He was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science popularizer
    • Sagan is known for his popular science books
    • He published more than 600 scientific papers
    • He received a bachelor of arts with general and special honours in 1954

  3. Hippocrates namesake, Hippocrates Smethwyck, appears in which books?

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    • Born: 460 BC
    • Place: Kos, Greece
    • Nationality: Greek
    • He was an ancient Greek physician
    • He is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine
    • He endured a 20-year prison sentence for becoming a famous ambassador for medicine against the strong opposing infrastructure of Greece
    • Hippocrates was credited by the disciples of Pythagoras
    • Hippocratic medicine and its philosophy are far removed from that of modern medicine

  4. Which fruit is often associated with Isaac Newton?

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    • Born: 25 December 1642
    • Place: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire
    • Nationality: British
    • He was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist and theologian
    • He has been considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived
    • Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope
    • He discovered Newton's identities and Newton's method
    • Newton was also a member of the Parliament of England from 1689 to 1690

  5. William Osler is well known in the field of gerontology (the study of aging) for the speech he gave on 22 February 1905. What was the title of this speech?

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    • Born: 12 July 1849
    • Place: Bond Head, Canada West
    • Nationality: Canadian
    • Osler was a pathologist, physician, educator, bibliophile, historian, author and renowned practical joker
    • He has been called the 'Father of modern medicine'
    • Osler was a prolific author and public speaker and his public speaking and writing were both done in a clear, lucid style
    • Osler lent his name to a number of diseases, signs and symptoms, as well as having buildings named after him

  6. What is the title of Louis Pasteur's work written in 1866?

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    • Born: 27 December 1822
    • Place: Dole, Jura, Franche-Comté
    • Nationality: French
    • He was a French chemist and microbiologist
    • He is remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases
    • He gained degrees in Letters and in Mathematical Sciences
    • Pasteur also discovered anaerobiosis called the Pasteur Effect
    • He died while listening to the story of St Vincent de Paul, whom he admired and sought to emulate

  7. What did Blaise Pascal call his mechanical calculator?

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    • Born: 19 June 1623
    • Place: Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Nationality: French
    • He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher
    • He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father
    • In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work and invented the mechanical calculator
    • Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids
    • His inventions include the hydraulic press and the syringe

  8. Which body part of Galileo Galilei is on exhibition in Florence?

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    • Born: 15 February 1564
    • Place: Pisa, Italy
    • Nationality: Italian
    • He was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
    • He played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
    • Galileo also worked in applied science and technology
    • He had three children out of wedlock

  9. Aristotle's treatise, On the Soul, posits three souls ('psyches') in humans. Which of the following is NOT one of the souls?

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    • Born: 384 bc
    • Place: Stageira, Chalcidice
    • Nationality: Greek
    • He was a Greek philosopher and polymath
    • He was also teacher of Alexander the Great
    • His works contain the earliest known formal study of logic
    • Aristotle was trained and educated as a member of the aristocracy
    • He died in Euboea of natural causes
    • He not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them

  10. Brian Cox was the science advisor for which 2007 science fiction film?

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    • Born: 3 March 1968
    • Place: Chadderton
    • Nationality: British
    • He is a British particle physicist
    • He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester
    • He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programmes for the BBC
    • He also had some fame in the 1990s as the keyboard player for the pop band D:Ream
    • Cox is a humanist and is a 'Distinguished Supporter' of the British Humanist Association
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