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Famous Personalities and Discoveries
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Famous personalities and discoveries questions test your knowledge of historical figures, scientists, and their groundbreaking inventions. These are highly scoring topics in SSC, banking, and state PSC general awareness sections. Solve these questions to memorize important contributions easily.
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Famous Personalities and Discoveries Questions
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Bill Gates
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Hollerith
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Charles Babbage
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William Oughtred
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Charles Babbage is widely considered the father of the computer for his design of the Analytical Engine.
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Isaac Newton
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Pavlov
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Einstein
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Rutherford
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Isaac Newton formulated the law of universal gravitation in his work Principia Mathematica, published in 1687.
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Karl Marx
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V. I. Lenin
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Jawahar Lal Nehru
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Mao Tse Tung
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Karl Marx is universally acknowledged as the father of scientific socialism due to his foundational work in developing the theory of historical materialism.
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Louis Pasteur
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C.V. Raman
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Faraday
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Issac Newton
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Isaac Newton announced the universal law of gravitation, describing the gravitational attraction between all objects with mass. Louis Pasteur worked in microbiology, C.V. Raman in physics (Raman effect), and Faraday in electromagnetism. Note: 'Issac' should be 'Isaac'.
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W. Harvey
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Malphigi
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C. Golgi
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Einthoven
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Halls
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Electrocardiograph is the refined form of string galvanometer that was first employed by Einthoven in 1903.
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Henri Braconnot
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Julius von Sachs
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Frederick Frost Blackman
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Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
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Frederick Frost Blackman proposed the law of limiting factors. A process is contingent on a variety of factors, like the rate is limited by the speed of the slowest factors. This minimum value is the optimum value, which indicates the highest rate and a maximum value above which no photosynthesis can occur.
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Aristotle
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Darwin
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Mendel
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Vesalius
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James Watt
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George Stephenson
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James Hargreaves
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Richard Ark Wright
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George Stephenson is widely recognized as the father of the railway system for his pioneering work in steam locomotive development. James Watt is known for the steam engine, while Hargreaves and Arkwright are associated with the textile industry.
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Norman Borlaugh
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Albert Howard
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Vavilov
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Garner and Allard
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Norman Borlaug is widely recognized as the Father of the Green Revolution for his work in developing high-yielding wheat varieties that saved millions from starvation.
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Karl Marx
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Lenin
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Darwin
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Kupatin
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Karl Marx is widely recognized as the father of scientific socialism, a theory he developed alongside Friedrich Engels.
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Galileo Galilei
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Zacharias Janssen
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Robert Hooke
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Giovanni Faber
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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Giovanni Faber (1625) coined the term 'microscope'.
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Blaize Pascal
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Charles Babbage
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William Wordsworth
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Issac Newton
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Charles Babbage is widely considered the father of the computer because he originated the concept of a digital programmable computer with his designs for the Analytical Engine.
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J Presper Eckert.
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Charles Babbage.
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Dr. Herman Hollerith.
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Blaise Pascal.
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Dr. Herman Hollerith developed the punched card tabulating machine for the 1890 US Census, which laid the foundation for modern data processing.
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F. W. Taylor
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Henry Fayol
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Lucas Pacioli
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J. R. Baliboi
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Lucas Pacioli is considered as the father of accounting.
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comedy
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tragedy
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satire
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puppetry
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Aristophanes is regarded as the father of comedy.