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An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

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MCQs on Famous Scientist | Competitive Exams

Q. Who is known as the father of modern physics?

A) Isaac Newton 

B) Albert Einstein 

C) Galileo Galilei 

D) Niels Bohr 

Answer: B) Albert Einstein

Q. Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?

A) Johannes Kepler 

B) Isaac Newton 

C) Albert Einstein 

D) Galileo Galilei 

Answer: B) Isaac Newton

Q. Who is credited with the discovery of penicillin?

A) Louis Pasteur 

B) Alexander Fleming 

C) Robert Koch 

D) Joseph Lister 

Answer: B) Alexander Fleming

Q. Who developed the theory of relativity?

A) Albert Einstein 

B) Niels Bohr 

C) Max Planck 

D) Werner Heisenberg 

Answer: A) Albert Einstein

Q. Who is known as the father of modern chemistry?

A) Dmitri Mendeleev 

B) Antoine Lavoisier 

C) John Dalton 

D) Robert Boyle 

Answer: B) Antoine Lavoisier

Q. Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

A) Ptolemy 

B) Nicolaus Copernicus 

C) Galileo Galilei 

D) Johannes Kepler 

Answer: B) Nicolaus Copernicus

Q. Who discovered the circulation of blood in the human body?

A) Hippocrates 

B) William Harvey 

C) Andreas Vesalius 

D) Edward Jenner 

Answer: B) William Harvey

Q. Who is known for the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics?

A) Albert Einstein 

B) Niels Bohr 

C) Werner Heisenberg 

D) Erwin Schrödinger 

Answer: C) Werner Heisenberg

Q. Who invented the first practical telephone?

A) Alexander Graham Bell 

B) Thomas Edison 

C) Nikola Tesla 

D) Guglielmo Marconi 

Answer: A) Alexander Graham Bell

Q. Who discovered the electron?

 A) James Clerk Maxwell 

 B) J.J. Thomson 

 C) Ernest Rutherford 

 D) Niels Bohr 

 Answer: B) J.J. Thomson

Q. Who is known as the father of genetics?

 A) Charles Darwin 

 B) Gregor Mendel 

 C) Alfred Wallace 

 D) Thomas Hunt Morgan 

 Answer: B) Gregor Mendel

Q. Who discovered the structure of DNA?

 A) James Watson and Francis Crick 

 B) Rosalind Franklin 

 C) Linus Pauling 

 D) Maurice Wilkins 

 Answer: A) James Watson and Francis Crick

Q. Who is known as the father of modern computer science?

 A) Alan Turing 

 B) Charles Babbage 

 C) John von Neumann 

 D) Steve Jobs 

 Answer: A) Alan Turing

Q. Who formulated the laws of planetary motion?

 A) Galileo Galilei 

 B) Johannes Kepler 

 C) Isaac Newton 

 D) Tycho Brahe 

 Answer: B) Johannes Kepler

Q. Who is credited with the discovery of radioactivity?

 A) Marie Curie 

 B) Henri Becquerel 

 C) Ernest Rutherford 

 D) Wilhelm Röntgen 

 Answer: B) Henri Becquerel

Q. Who developed the polio vaccine?

 A) Edward Jenner 

 B) Alexander Fleming 

 C) Jonas Salk 

 D) Robert Koch 

 Answer: C) Jonas Salk

Q. Who is known as the father of modern astronomy?

 A) Nicolaus Copernicus 

 B) Galileo Galilei 

 C) Johannes Kepler 

 D) Tycho Brahe 

 Answer: B) Galileo Galilei

Q. Who discovered the neutron?

 A) Ernest Rutherford 

 B) James Chadwick 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Enrico Fermi 

 Answer: B) James Chadwick

Q. Who invented the electric light bulb?

 A) Alexander Graham Bell 

 B) Nikola Tesla 

 C) Thomas Edison 

 D) George Westinghouse 

 Answer: C) Thomas Edison

Q. Who is known for the discovery of X-rays?

 A) Wilhelm Röntgen 

 B) Henri Becquerel 

 C) Marie Curie 

 D) Louis Pasteur 

 Answer: A) Wilhelm Röntgen

Q. Who proposed the law of electromagnetic induction?

 A) James Clerk Maxwell 

 B) Michael Faraday 

 C) Heinrich Hertz 

 D) Nikola Tesla 

 Answer: B) Michael Faraday

Q. Who is known as the father of bacteriology?

 A) Louis Pasteur 

 B) Robert Koch 

 C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 

 D) Joseph Lister 

 Answer: B) Robert Koch

Q. Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection?

 A) Charles Darwin 

 B) Alfred Wallace 

 C) Gregor Mendel 

 D) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 

 Answer: A) Charles Darwin

Q. Who discovered the law of conservation of mass?

 A) John Dalton 

 B) Antoine Lavoisier 

 C) Dmitri Mendeleev 

 D) Robert Boyle 

 Answer: B) Antoine Lavoisier

Q. Who is credited with the discovery of oxygen?

 A) Joseph Priestley 

 B) Antoine Lavoisier 

 C) Carl Wilhelm Scheele 

 D) Henry Cavendish 

 Answer: A) Joseph Priestley

Q. Who formulated the laws of electrolysis?

 A) Michael Faraday 

 B) Humphry Davy 

 C) James Clerk Maxwell 

 D) Nikola Tesla 

 Answer: A) Michael Faraday

Q. Who invented the first successful airplane?

 A) Samuel Langley 

 B) Wilbur and Orville Wright 

 C) Glenn Curtiss 

 D) Alberto Santos-Dumont 

 Answer: B) Wilbur and Orville Wright

Q. Who is known for the discovery of the proton?

 A) J.J. Thomson 

 B) Ernest Rutherford 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) James Chadwick 

 Answer: B) Ernest Rutherford

Q. Who proposed the periodic table of elements?

 A) John Dalton 

 B) Dmitri Mendeleev 

 C) Antoine Lavoisier 

 D) Robert Boyle 

 Answer: B) Dmitri Mendeleev

Q. Who discovered the laws of heredity?

 A) Gregor Mendel 

 B) Charles Darwin 

 C) Alfred Wallace 

 D) Thomas Hunt Morgan 

 Answer: A) Gregor Mendel

Q. Who invented the steam engine?

 A) Thomas Newcomen 

 B) James Watt 

 C) George Stephenson 

 D) Robert Fulton 

 Answer: B) James Watt

Q. Who is known for his work on the Manhattan Project and quantum mechanics?

 A) Robert Oppenheimer 

 B) Enrico Fermi 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Richard Feynman 

 Answer: A) Robert Oppenheimer

Q. Who discovered the circulation of sap in plants?

 A) Jan Ingenhousz 

 B) Stephen Hales 

 C) Marcello Malpighi 

 D) Joseph Priestley 

 Answer: B) Stephen Hales

Q. Who is known as the father of modern geology?

 A) James Hutton 

 B) Charles Lyell 

 C) Alfred Wegener 

 D) Louis Agassiz 

 Answer: A) James Hutton

Q. Who invented the first practical reflecting telescope?

 A) Galileo Galilei 

 B) Johannes Kepler 

 C) Isaac Newton 

 D) Christiaan Huygens 

 Answer: C) Isaac Newton

Q. Who discovered the planet Uranus?

 A) Galileo Galilei 

 B) Isaac Newton 

 C) William Herschel 

 D) Johannes Kepler 

 Answer: C) William Herschel

Q. Who is known for the development of quantum theory?

 A) Albert Einstein 

 B) Niels Bohr 

 C) Max Planck 

 D) Werner Heisenberg 

 Answer: C) Max Planck

Q. Who invented the barometer?

 A) Evangelista Torricelli 

 B) Blaise Pascal 

 C) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 

 D) Anders Celsius 

 Answer: A) Evangelista Torricelli

Q. Who proposed the law of conservation of energy?

 A) James Joule 

 B) Hermann von Helmholtz

 C) William Thomson 

 D) Michael Faraday 

 Answer: B) Hermann von Helmholtz

Q. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

 A) Albert Sabin 

 B) Jonas Salk 

 C) Edward Jenner 

 D) Louis Pasteur 

 Answer: B) Jonas Salk

Q. Who discovered the electron?

 A) J.J. Thomson 

 B) Ernest Rutherford 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) James Chadwick 

 Answer: A) J.J. Thomson

Q. Who is known for his work on the laws of inheritance?

 A) Gregor Mendel 

 B) Charles Darwin 

 C) Alfred Wallace 

 D) Thomas Hunt Morgan 

 Answer: A) Gregor Mendel

Q. Who discovered the neutron?

 A) Ernest Rutherford 

 B) James Chadwick 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Enrico Fermi 

 Answer: B) James Chadwick

Q. Who is known as the father of modern chemistry?

 A) Antoine Lavoisier 

 B) John Dalton 

 C) Dmitri Mendeleev 

 D) Robert Boyle 

 Answer: A) Antoine Lavoisier

Q. Who invented the first practical telephone?

 A) Alexander Graham Bell 

 B) Thomas Edison 

 C) Nikola Tesla 

 D) Guglielmo Marconi 

 Answer: A) Alexander Graham Bell

Q. Who is known for the theory of relativity?

 A) Albert Einstein 

 B) Niels Bohr 

 C) Max Planck 

 D) Werner Heisenberg 

 Answer: A) Albert Einstein

Q. Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?

 A) Galileo Galilei 

 B) Johannes Kepler 

 C) Isaac Newton 

 D) Tycho Brahe 

 Answer: B) Johannes Kepler

Q. Who discovered radioactivity?

 A) Henri Becquerel 

 B) Marie Curie 

 C) Ernest Rutherford 

 D) Wilhelm Röntgen 

 Answer: A) Henri Becquerel

Q. Who developed the theory of evolution?

 A) Charles Darwin 

 B) Alfred Wallace 

 C) Gregor Mendel 

 D) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 

 Answer: A) Charles Darwin

Q. Who is credited with the discovery of penicillin?

 A) Alexander Fleming 

 B) Louis Pasteur 

 C) Robert Koch 

 D) Joseph Lister 

 Answer: A) Alexander Fleming

Q. Who is known for the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics?

 A) Werner Heisenberg 

 B) Niels Bohr 

 C) Albert Einstein 

 D) Max Planck 

 Answer: A) Werner Heisenberg

Q. Who invented the electric light bulb?

 A) Thomas Edison 

 B) Nikola Tesla 

 C) Alexander Graham Bell 

 D) George Westinghouse 

 Answer: A) Thomas Edison

Q. Who discovered the X-ray?

 A) Wilhelm Röntgen 

 B) Henri Becquerel 

 C) Marie Curie 

 D) Louis Pasteur 

 Answer: A) Wilhelm Röntgen

Q. Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

 A) Nicolaus Copernicus 

 B) Ptolemy 

 C) Galileo Galilei 

 D) Johannes Kepler 

 Answer: A) Nicolaus Copernicus

Q. Who discovered the circulation of blood?

 A) William Harvey 

 B) Hippocrates 

 C) Andreas Vesalius 

 D) Edward Jenner 

 Answer: A) William Harvey

Q. Who is known as the father of modern computer science?

 A) Alan Turing 

 B) Charles Babbage 

 C) John von Neumann 

 D) Steve Jobs 

 Answer: A) Alan Turing

Q. Who is known for the discovery of the proton?

 A) Ernest Rutherford 

 B) J.J. Thomson 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) James Chadwick 

 Answer: A) Ernest Rutherford

Q. Who invented the steam engine?

 A) James Watt 

 B) Thomas Newcomen 

 C) George Stephenson 

 D) Robert Fulton 

 Answer: A) James Watt

Q. Who is known for the development of quantum theory?

 A) Max Planck 

 B) Albert Einstein 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Werner Heisenberg 

 Answer: A) Max Planck

Q. Who proposed the law of electromagnetic induction?

 A) Michael Faraday 

 B) James Clerk Maxwell 

 C) Heinrich Hertz 

 D) Nikola Tesla 

 Answer: A) Michael Faraday

Q. Who discovered the laws of heredity?

 A) Gregor Mendel 

 B) Charles Darwin 

 C) Alfred Wallace 

 D) Thomas Hunt Morgan 

 Answer: A) Gregor Mendel

Q. Who invented the first successful airplane?

 A) Wilbur and Orville Wright 

 B) Samuel Langley 

 C) Glenn Curtiss 

 D) Alberto Santos-Dumont 

 Answer: A) Wilbur and Orville Wright

Q. Who is known for his work on the Manhattan Project?

 A) Robert Oppenheimer 

 B) Enrico Fermi 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Richard Feynman 

 Answer: A) Robert Oppenheimer

Q. Who invented the barometer?

 A) Evangelista Torricelli 

 B) Blaise Pascal 

 C) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit 

 D) Anders Celsius 

 Answer: A) Evangelista Torricelli

Q. Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?

 A) Jonas Salk 

 B) Albert Sabin 

 C) Edward Jenner 

 D) Louis Pasteur 

 Answer: A) Jonas Salk

Q. Who discovered the electron?

 A) J.J. Thomson 

 B) Ernest Rutherford 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) James Chadwick 

 Answer: A) J.J. Thomson

Q. Who discovered the neutron?

 A) James Chadwick 

 B) Ernest Rutherford 

 C) Niels Bohr 

 D) Enrico Fermi 

 Answer: A) James Chadwick

Q. Who invented the first practical telephone?

 A) Alexander Graham Bell 

 B) Thomas Edison 

 C) Nikola Tesla 

 D) Guglielmo Marconi 

 Answer: A) Alexander Graham Bell

Q. Who developed the theory of evolution?

 A) Charles Darwin 

 B) Alfred Wallace 

 C) Gregor Mendel 

 D) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 

 Answer: A) Charles Darwin

Q. Who is known for the theory of relativity?

 A) Albert Einstein 

 B) Niels Bohr 

 C) Max Planck 

 D) Werner Heisenberg 

 Answer: A) Albert Einstein

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