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SCIENTISTS AND INVENTIONS
A notoriously tricky area in which there is all too often scope for quibbling: it depends what you mean by...do you mean the first one or the first successful/working/economically viable one?
I have tried to be cautious...
- What science links Huygens, Flamsteed and Herschel?
Astronomy
- What post links Flamsteed, Ryle and Pond?
Astronomer Royal
- Sir Henry Bessemer's eponymous process produces what?
Steel
- Physicist Niels Bohr, central to understanding of atomic structure, was of what nationality?
Danish (b. Copenhagen 1885)
- This scientist determined the velocity of light in 1850, proved that Earth rotates in 1851 and invented the gyroscope in 1852. French, who was he?
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault
- Name the Scots mathematician associated with logs and bones.
John Napier (various spellings of surname). He developed the concept of logarithms and developed a multiplication tool that used numbered bones or strips of wood. Also developed the decimal point.
- The Hurley Machine Company of Chicago is credited with what major technological development in 1907?
The electric washing machine
- John Logie Baird first demonstrated television in what year?
1926
- The effects of what were first demonstrated by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1895?
X-rays (widely known as Röntgen rays)
- Who under Stalin was the Soviet biologist and agronomist who rejected Mendel's genetics in favour of ideologically more congenial theories and who was himself discredited after initial crop yield successes were not maintained?
Trofim Lysenko
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