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Which British surgeon developed antiseptic surgery methods influenced by Pasteur's germ work?
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Joseph Lister
What named effect describes oxygen reducing fermentation, as observed by Pasteur?
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Pasteur effect
What organism did Pasteur show was responsible for turning sugar into alcohol?
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Yeast
Newton's laws are central to which broad field of pre-relativistic mechanics?
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Classical mechanics
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What named effect describes oxygen reducing fermentation, as observed by Pasteur?
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Pasteur effect
What was Louis Pasteur's first major research field?
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Crystallography
Newton's laws are central to which broad field of pre-relativistic mechanics?
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Classical mechanics
Which named principle rewrites Newton's second law using inertial forces?
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D'Alembert's principle
What named machine uses two masses over a pulley to study Newtonian acceleration?
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Atwood machine
Which scientist formulated laws of motion for rigid bodies that extend Newton's laws?
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Leonhard Euler
Which theory supersedes Newton's laws at speeds close to light speed?
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Special relativity
Which scientific society published Newton's Principia in 1687?
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Royal Society