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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries
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This hub provides questions related to great inventors and their scientific discoveries. It covers the inventors of the telephone, radio, and microchips, alongside Nobel Prize winners. These facts are crucial for the general awareness section of major competitive exams.
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Inventors and Scientific Discoveries Questions
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Waksman
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Pasteur
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Vuillemin
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Alexander Fleming
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French bacteriologist Paul Veillemin coined the term antibiosis in 1889.
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Harshey
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Karl Ereky
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Strausberger
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Carl Correns
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Mendel
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He was a biochemist, who coined the term Biotechnology.
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Kohler & Milestein
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Kary Mullis
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William Bateson
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Eva Engvall and Peter Perlman
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Robert Joseph Dole
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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis. It is a biochemical technology to amplify a single or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence.
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Peter Agre
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Robert Brown
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Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien
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Alec Jeffreys
C
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Martin Chalfie, Osamu Shimomura, and Roger Y. Tsien were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on 10 October 2008 for their discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein.
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Netscape
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Microsoft
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Sun
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None of the above is correct
C
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Java was invented by Sun Microsystems in 1995 under the leadership of James Gosling. The language was originally called 'Oak' and was developed for consumer electronics, later repurposed for web applications. Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010, which now maintains Java.
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Netscape
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Microsoft
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Sun
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None of the above is correct
C
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Java was invented by Sun Microsystems (now owned by Oracle). James Gosling led the Java project at Sun in the early 1990s. Netscape developed JavaScript (not Java). Microsoft created .NET and C#, not Java. The correct answer is Sun.
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Richard Feynman
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Norio Taniguchi
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K. Eric Drexler
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Gerd Binnig
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Norio Taniguchi was a professor of Tokyo University of Science. He coined the term nanotechnology in 1974, to describe semiconductor processes such as thin film deposition and ion beam milling exhibiting characteristic control on the order of a nanometer.
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Electron microscope
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Stroboscope
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Atomic force microscope
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Scanning tunneling microscope
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The invention of the scanning tunneling microscope in 1981, provided unprecedented visualization of individual atoms and bonds, and was successfully used to manipulate individual atoms in 1989. The microscope's developers Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986.
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Eric Drexler
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Robert Curl
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Richard Feynman
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Harry Kroto
C
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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those used at the time. The talk is considered to be a seminal event in the history of nanotechnology, as it inspired the conceptual beginnings of the field decades later.
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Van Helmont
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Carl Scheele
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Joseph Pristeley
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Daniel Rutherford
A
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Van Helmont discovered carbon dioxide in 1630.
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A. V. Leeuwenhoek
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Robert Hooke
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Ehrenberg
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Funk
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Gold Fuss
C
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The term ‘bacteria’ was given by Ehrenberg.
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Johnsann
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Mendel
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Correns
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Bateson
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Morgan
D
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He gave term allele, homozygous and heterozygous.
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Landsteiner
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A. S. Wiener and Landsteiner
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De Castello and Steini
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Bernstein
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None of these
C
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De Castello and Steini discovered the fourth blood group AB.
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Schleiden
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Robert Brown
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Schwann
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Virchow
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Haeckel
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This is the correct option. Robert Brown was the scientist who discovered nucleus.
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Joseph Lister
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Koch
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Bruce
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Ducrey
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Van Ermengem
A
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Pure culture of bacteria was first obtained by Joseph Lister.