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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

Multiple choice
  1. Mortagnier

  2. Edward Teller

  3. Simon Binet

  4. Gloud

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Luc Montagnier (misspelled as Mortagnier in the question) co-discovered the HIV virus in 1983, for which he shared a Nobel Prize. Note that HIV was discovered, not invented - the question uses incorrect terminology.

Multiple choice
  1. Godfrey Hounsfield (Britain)

  2. Dr. Alan M. Turing (Britain)

  3. William Sturgeon (Britain)

  4. None of these

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Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, a British electrical engineer, is credited with the invention of the CT scanner, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in 1979.

Multiple choice
  1. Robert Hooke

  2. Robert Brown

  3. Schleiden and Schwann

  4. Von Mohl

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Cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665.