Scientists, Inventions & Discoveries Questions with Solutions
This topic covers famous scientists and their contributions, major inventions and their inventors, important discoveries in physics, chemistry and biology, Indian scientists and their work, and Nobel Prizes in science. Questions commonly match an invention with its inventor (the telephone with Alexander Graham Bell, and the World Wide Web with Tim Berners-Lee), a discovery with its scientist (penicillin with Alexander Fleming), or an Indian scientist with their work, such as C. V. Raman and the Raman effect, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930. Practise the scientists, inventions and discoveries questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.
- Q1.
The wave nature of matter (matter waves) was proposed by:
A. Albert EinsteinB. Louis de BroglieC. Niels BohrD. Max PlanckmediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q2.
The photoelectric effect was discovered in 1887 by:
A. Robert MillikanB. Heinrich HertzC. Albert EinsteinD. J.J. ThomsonmediumAsked in Defence +1View solution › - Q3.
Georg Simon Ohm formulated the relation V = IR (Ohm's law) in the year:
A. 1831B. 1865C. 1800D. 1827mediumAsked in SSCView solution › - Q4.
Paper is traditionally credited as having been invented by:
A. Johannes GutenbergB. Zhang HengC. Cai LunD. Bi ShengmediumAsked in SSCView solution ›