What was Niels Bohr's code name during the Manhattan Project?
Answer
Nicholas Baker
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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What principle did Niels Bohr introduce to describe wave-particle duality?
Answer
Complementarity
What was the title of Niels Bohr's 1913 paper on atomic structure?
Answer
On the Constitution of Atoms and Molecules
In which English city did Niels Bohr work with Ernest Rutherford?
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Manchester
What was the name of Niels Bohr's brother, a famous mathematician?
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Harald Bohr
What was the original name of the institute founded by Niels Bohr in 1921?
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Institute of Theoretical Physics
What principle, formulated by Bohr, states that quantum mechanics must reduce to classical physics?
Answer
Correspondence principle
What was the title of Rosalind Franklin's 1953 Nature paper with Raymond Gosling?
Answer
Molecular Configuration in Sodium Thymonucleate
What organization funded Rosalind Franklin's virus research at Birkbeck?
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Agricultural Research Council
What type of X-ray tube did Rosalind Franklin use for DNA diffraction?
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Ehrenberg-Spear microfocus X-ray tube
Who was the French scientist Rosalind Franklin collaborated with in Paris?
Answer
Jacques Mering
On what date were Rosalind Franklin's DNA papers published in Nature?
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25 April 1953
Who was the head of the Physics Department at Birkbeck College when Rosalind Franklin worked there?
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John Desmond Bernal
What was the name of the fellowship that funded Rosalind Franklin's work at King's College?
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Turner and Newall Fellowship
What is the approximate diameter of DNA as measured by Rosalind Franklin?
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2 nanometres
What French laboratory did Rosalind Franklin work at from 1947 to 1950?
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Laboratoire Central des Services Chimiques de l'État
Who was Rosalind Franklin's PhD supervisor at Cambridge?
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Ronald Norrish
Who was the director of the Biophysics Research Unit at King's College?
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John Randall
What was the name of the research unit at King's College where Rosalind Franklin worked?
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Biophysics Research Unit
What aspect of coal did Rosalind Franklin research?
Answer
Structure and porosity
What disease caused Rosalind Franklin's death?
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Ovarian cancer
What virus structure did Rosalind Franklin investigate later in her career?
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Tobacco mosaic virus
Which two scientists used Rosalind Franklin's data to propose the DNA double helix?
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Watson and Crick
What type of glass did Faraday develop to improve optical instruments?
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heavy flint glass
Which prestigious position did Faraday twice decline?
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President of the Royal Society
What element did Faraday first succeed in liquefying?
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chlorine
Which British banknote featured Michael Faraday?
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£20 note
What title did Faraday hold as a professor at the Royal Institution?
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Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
What effect describes the rotation of light polarization in a magnetic field?
Answer
Faraday effect
Which scientist mentored Faraday at the Royal Institution?
Answer
Humphry Davy
What tissue from infected rabbits did Pasteur use to prepare rabies vaccine?
Answer
Spinal cord
What method did Pasteur recommend to control pébrine in silkworms?
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Selecting healthy eggs
Which type of fermentation did Pasteur show was caused by an anaerobic microorganism?
Answer
Butyric acid fermentation
Which bacterium discovered by Pasteur causes fowl cholera?
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Pasteurella multocida
What was the name of the shepherd boy who was the second human treated with Pasteur's rabies vaccine?
Answer
Jean-Baptiste Jupille