Which Spanish order made Fleming a Knight Grand Cross in 1948?
Answer
Order of Alfonso X the Wise
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was Fleming's share of the 1945 Nobel Prize?
Answer
one third
Which Nobel co-laureate was Chain's head of department at Oxford?
Answer
Howard Florey
Who was Fleming's father?
Answer
Hugh Fleming
Which pathologist first used penicillin successfully for medical treatment?
Answer
Cecil George Paine
Fleming first presented penicillin to which club in February 1929?
Answer
Medical Research Club
On what date did Fleming coin the name penicillin?
Answer
7 March 1929
In 1928, which university elected Fleming Professor of Bacteriology?
Answer
University of London
Who isolated scandium oxide in late 1879, confirming eka-boron?
Answer
Lars Fredrik Nilson
What provisional name in Mendeleev's predictions corresponds to technetium?
Answer
eka-manganese
Which prize did Mendeleev receive in 1889?
Answer
Faraday Lectureship Prize
Which U.S. state’s petroleum industry did Mendeleev compare with Russia’s?
Answer
Pennsylvania
Which academy awarded Mendeleev the Demidov Prize for Organic Chemistry?
Answer
Petersburg Academy of Sciences
Which English chemist described the Law of Octaves before Mendeleev's table?
Answer
John Newlands
Which German chemist published a similar periodic table months after Mendeleev?
Answer
Lothar Meyer
Which society heard Mendeleev's formal periodic-law presentation on 6 March 1869?
Answer
Russian Chemical Society
What prize did Mendeleev's textbook Organic Chemistry win?
Answer
Demidov Prize
What 1861 textbook by Mendeleev won the Demidov Prize?
Answer
Organic Chemistry
Bohr and Werner Heisenberg are closely associated with which interpretation of quantum mechanics?
Answer
Copenhagen interpretation
What was Niels Bohr's mother's maiden surname?
Answer
Adler
Which Michael Frayn play explores Bohr's 1941 meeting with Heisenberg?
Answer
Copenhagen
What was the subject of Niels Bohr's master's degree work?
Answer
electron theory of metals
Which academy sponsored Bohr's 1905 gold-medal competition?
Answer
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
In the Bohr model, an electron's quantum jump emits or absorbs what kind of radiation?
Answer
electromagnetic radiation
Which foundation created a 1933 fund that Bohr used to help refugee academics?
Answer
Rockefeller Foundation
Which 1923 discovery convinced many physicists that light was composed of photons?
Answer
Compton scattering
Which British laboratory did Bohr visit in 1911 to meet J. J. Thomson?
Answer
Cavendish Laboratory
Which physicist worked in Copenhagen as Bohr's lecturer-assistant from 1926 to 1927?
Answer
Werner Heisenberg
What theory did Bohr, Kramers and Slater advance in 1924?
Answer
BKS theory
Which journal published Bohr's three famous atomic-theory papers in 1913?
Answer
Philosophical Magazine
Which foundation supported Bohr's 1911 trip to England?
Answer
Carlsberg Foundation