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1
Who was the first European to describe in detail the process of making gunpowder?
Roger Bacon
2
Who was the first of all Englishmen to make a telescope?
Thomas Harriot
3
Which Irish physicist and chemist showed that sound waves are carried by air?
Robert Boyle
4
Which English physicist and mathematician discovered gravity and developed the theory of colour?
Sir Isaac Newton
5
Who calculated the orbit of Halley's Comet?
Edmund Halley
6
Which Scottish engineer invented the first modern steam engine?
James Watt
7
Which Scottish chemist invented waterproof fabric?
Charles Macintosh
8
Which British chemist introduced the atomic theory into chemistry and investigated colour blindness?
John Dalton
9
Who invented the first modern form of fire extinguisher?
George William Manby
10
Who discovered the principles underlying electromagnetic induction and electrolysis?
Michael Faraday
11
Which English mathematician, philosopher and inventor is considered the Father of the Computer?
Charles Babbage
12
Who discovered that the rings of Saturn consisted of a large number of small particles?
James Clerk Maxwell
13
Which English geologist and biologist formulated the theory of natural selection?
Charles Darwin
14
Who discovered of the 'The 'Law of Conservation of Energy'?
James Prescott Joule
15
Which English inventor developed the first process for manufacturing steel inexpensively?
Sir Henry Bessemer
16
Which British physicist and engineer defined the absolute thermodynamic scale of temperature?
Lord Kelvin
17
Who is considered the Father of Nuclear Physics?
Ernest Rutherford
18
Who pioneered the concept of modern-day computers by introducing the idea of a '____ Machine'?
Alan Turing
19
Which Scottish physician and microbiologist discovered penicillin?
Alexander Fleming
20
Which female British chemist contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
21
Who is the author of the book A Brief History of Time?
Stephen Hawking
22
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
23
Which American scientist and politician invented a lightning rod and bifocal glasses?
Benjamin Franklin
24
Which American painter and inventor invented a single-wire telegraph system?
Samuel Morse
25
Who invented the first practical telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
26
Who invented the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb?
Thomas Edison
27
Who designed the alternating-current electric system and created the coil?
Nikola Tesla
28
Who are considered the Fathers of Modern Aviation?
The Wright Brothers
29
Which German-born physicist developed the theory of relativity?
Albert Einstein
30
Which American geneticist and biophysicist discovered the molecular structure of DNA?
James Watson
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