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1
Whose law is the second law of refraction?
Snell
2
Whose law is the first law of Electromagnetic Induction?
Faraday
3
Whose law is the second law of Electromagnetic Induction?
Lenz
4
Who discovered the electron?
Thompson
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Who measured the charge on an electron?
Millikan
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Who first used the name electron?
Stoney
7
Who explained the photoelectric effect?
Einstein
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Who discovered X-rays?
Rontgen
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Who discovered the nucleus of an atom?
Rutherford
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Whose model of the atom involves energy levels?
Bohr
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Who discovered radioactivity?
Becquerel
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Who designed an instrument to measure radioactivity?
Geiger and Mueller
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Who predicted the existence of the neutrino?
Pauli
14
Who coined the term neutrino?
Fermi
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Who first experimentally verified E = m c²?
Cockcroft and Walton
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Who predicted (mathematically) the existence of anti-matter?
Dirac
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Which Irish writer is associated with the name 'quark'?
Joyce
18
Who proposed quark theory?
Gell-Mann
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