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