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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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Marconi
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Braille
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Edison
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Max Planck
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Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the radio, often referred to as the wireless telegraphy system.
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Darwin
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Spencer
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Locke
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Newton
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Charles Darwin, in his theory of evolution and natural selection, emphasized individual variation within a species as a key driver of biological change.
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Strasburger
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Fleming
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Nageli
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Virchow
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Fleming used the term mitosis for the first time for somatic cell division (1882).
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Graham bell
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G.Marconi
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Charles Darwin
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Samuel Morse
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Newton
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Guglielmo Marconi is credited with the invention of the radio, having developed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraphy system.
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Waterloo
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Waterman
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Gutenberg
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Sholes
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J.l Baird
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Lewis Edson Waterman is credited with inventing the first practical fountain pen in 1884, which featured a reliable ink feed system.
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Neil Bohr
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William Harvey
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William Ramsay
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Lavoiser
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None of these
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Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Joseph Priestley, but Antoine Lavoisier is credited with naming it and recognizing its role in combustion.
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Napier
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Blaise Pascal
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J.M.Jacquard
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Charles Babbage
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John Napier is credited with the invention of logarithms in the early 17th century. His work significantly simplified complex mathematical calculations.
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De Candolle
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John Lindley
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Bentham and Hooker
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Henri Baillon
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These together published a joint system of classification containing 202 orders of monumental work "Genera Plantarum".
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Linnaeus
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Bentham and Hooker
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Hutchinson
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None of these
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Phyletic classifications are natural classifications that try to identify the evolutionary history of natural groups. Hutchinson's classification was a phylogenetic classification.
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Bentham And Hooker
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John Hutchinson
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Engler and Prantl
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Linnaeus
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'Families of flowering plants' was written by John Hutchinson.
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Robert Koch
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Robert Alexander
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Robert Peterson
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None of these
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Robert Koch, a German physician and microbiologist, identified the causative agent of cholera, Vibrio cholerae, in 1883.
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Charles Babbage
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Von-Neumann
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Denies Ritchel
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Blaise Pascal
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None of these
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Paul Ehrlich
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Alexander von Humboldt
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Robert Constanza
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A.G. Tansley
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Charles Darwin
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Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and geographer observed that within a region, species richness increase with the increase in the area under consideration, but only up to a limit.
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Elisha G. Otis
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Joseph Aspdin
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Richard Trevithick
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Sir Frank Whittle
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Richard Trevithick is credited with building the first working railway steam locomotive in 1804.
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Kirkpatrick Macmillan
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Zenobe Gramme
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Brequet
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Thomas Alva Edison