What was the name of Gregor Mendel's father?
Answer
Anton Mendel
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What was the cause of Gregor Mendel's death?
Answer
chronic nephritis
What was the name of Mendel's paper that introduced his laws?
Answer
Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden
How many years did Mendel serve as abbot of his monastery?
Answer
16 years
Besides plants, what type of organism did Mendel also study?
Answer
Honeybees
What was Mendel's original given name at birth?
Answer
Johann
What was the name of the town where Mendel was born?
Answer
Heinzendorf
Which laboratory did James Watson direct from 1968 to 2007?
Answer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
In what year did Watson and Crick first meet?
Answer
1951
What does the 'D' in James D. Watson stand for?
Answer
Dewey
At what cemetery is Dmitri Mendeleev buried in Saint Petersburg?
Answer
Volkovo Cemetery
What term did Mendeleev coin for the critical temperature of a gas?
Answer
absolute boiling point
What type of smokeless powder did Mendeleev invent?
Answer
Pyrocollodion
What Russian government agency did Mendeleev direct later in his career?
Answer
Bureau of Weights and Measures
What was the name of Mendeleev's second wife?
Answer
Anna Popova
What is the name of the museum at St Mary's Hospital that preserves Fleming's laboratory?
Answer
Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
What was the name of Alexander Fleming's first wife?
Answer
Sarah McElroy
What is Alexander Fleming's date of birth?
Answer
6 August 1881
Who was Alexander Fleming's mentor at St Mary's?
Answer
Sir Almroth Wright
What bodily fluid did Fleming use in his discovery of lysozyme?
Answer
Nasal mucus
What was the address of the house where Ada Lovelace was born?
Answer
13 Piccadilly Terrace
What was the title of the paper Ada Lovelace translated that included her extensive notes?
Answer
Sketch of the Analytical Engine
What was the name of the professor who taught Ada Lovelace mathematics through correspondence?
Answer
Augustus De Morgan
What is the name of Stephen Hawking's younger sister?
Answer
Mary Hawking
What was the name of the posthumous book by Stephen Hawking published in 2018?
Answer
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
What was the title of Stephen Hawking's posthumous 2018 paper co-authored with Thomas Hertog?
Answer
A Smooth Exit from Eternal Inflation?
What is the name of the theory proposed by Hawking and James Hartle?
Answer
No-boundary proposal
What is the asteroid named after Stephen Hawking?
Answer
7672 Hawking
What name is given to the singularity theorems Hawking proved with Roger Penrose?
Answer
Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems
What was the title of Stephen Hawking's first BBC Reith Lecture in 2016?
Answer
Do Black Holes Have No Hair?
What was the name of the Inquisition commissary who interrogated Galileo?
Answer
Vincenzo Maculano
What was the name of Galileo's first biographer?
Answer
Vincenzo Viviani
How many times did Galileo observe Neptune without recognizing it?
Answer
two times
What was the specific verdict of the Inquisition against Galileo?
Answer
vehement suspicion of heresy
What was the name of Galileo's mother?
Answer
Giulia Ammannati
What is Galileo's birth date (day and month)?
Answer
February 15