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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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Carrier
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Son
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Ohain
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None of these
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Hans von Ohain is recognized as the designer of the first operational jet engine. While the prompt mentions airplane and jet engine, Ohain is the key figure for the jet engine.
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Wilmut, et al
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Boyer
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Edward Teller
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None of these
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Ian Wilmut and his team at the Roslin Institute successfully cloned Dolly the sheep in 1996. This was the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Lazlo Biro
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Newton
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None of these
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. He is widely known as the father of the atomic bomb.
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Appert
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Karl Benz
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Sony
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None of these
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Karl Benz is credited with the invention of the first modern automobile powered by an internal combustion engine in 1886.
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Libby
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John Carbutt
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Napier
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None of these
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John Napier introduced logarithms to the mathematical world in 1614. His work significantly simplified complex calculations.
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Zoll
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Calton C. Magee
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Chadwick
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Napier
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Mortagnier
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Edward Teller
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Simon Binet
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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.
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Godfrey Hounsfield (Britain)
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Dr. Alan M. Turing (Britain)
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William Sturgeon (Britain)
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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.
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foot and mouth
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rust of wheat
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citrus canker
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anthrax
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Anthrax is a skin disease which affects sheep and cow and was discovered by Robert Koch.
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Robert Hooke
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Robert Brown
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Schleiden and Schwann
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Von Mohl
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Cell was first discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665.
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Richard Drew
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Carrier
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Hounsfield
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Wernher von braun
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Wernher von Braun was a German-born aerospace engineer and space architect who is considered the father of rocket technology and the V-2 ballistic missile.
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P.T.Farnsworth
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Szilard Fermi
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Wilhelm K.Roentgen
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Donald F.Duncan
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen discovered X-rays in 1895 while experimenting with cathode rays, for which he received the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Karl Benz
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C.F. von Zeppelin
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Augsburg
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Kapany
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Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and inventor who developed the rigid airship, which became known as the Zeppelin.
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Sony
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Georges de Mestral
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Moog
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Spangler
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James Spangler, a janitor, invented the first portable electric vacuum cleaner in 1907, which he later sold to William Hoover.
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Berthelot
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Thomson,J
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Boyer
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Gould
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Pierre Eugene Marcellin Berthelot, a French chemist, is credited with the discovery and synthesis of acetylene gas.