Atoms & Innovations – 50 Chemistry & Physics Questions from North America
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#1. What is the chemical symbol for lead?
#2. What is the SI unit of energy?
#3. Which American physicist is known for the famous “Feynman diagrams”?
#4. What is the chemical formula for water?
#5. Which American scientist developed the polio vaccine?
#6. Which Canadian chemist won a Nobel Prize for work on chemical kinetics?
#7. Which American physicist is known for the “photoelectric effect” explanation?
#8. Which Canadian medical scientist co-discovered the gene for cystic fibrosis?
#9. Which Canadian inventor patented the first electric cooking range?
#10. Which American physicist developed the Manhattan Project atomic bomb?
#11. Which Canadian invention is a type of portable communication device?
#12. Which American chemist is known for the Pauling scale of electronegativity?
#13. Which Canadian physicist was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics for laser physics?
#14. Which American physicist created the first working laser?
#15. What is the speed of light in a vacuum (approximately in miles per second)?
#16. Which Canadian scientist won the Nobel Prize for his work on neutron scattering?
#17. What is the atomic number of oxygen?
#18. What is the pH of pure water at 25°C?
#19. Which Canadian scientist co-discovered insulin?
#20. What is the SI unit of force?
#21. What is the atomic number of carbon?
#22. Which American inventor created the first practical light bulb?
#23. Which Canadian scientist invented the “cobalt-60 cancer treatment” machine?
#24. What is the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit?
#25. What is the chemical symbol for gold?
#26. Which Canadian inventor patented the first electric streetcar (tram) in 1887?
#27. Which American scientist is known as the “father of modern rocket propulsion”?
#28. Which American chemist discovered the first synthetic rubber (neoprene)?
#29. What is the chemical symbol for iron?
#30. Which Canadian-born inventor is credited with inventing the telephone?
#31. Which Canadian physicist is known for his work on quantum optics and won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics?
#32. Which Canadian-American physicist co-invented the electron microscope?
#33. What is the chemical symbol for sodium?
#34. Which American chemist discovered the element plutonium?
#35. Which American physicist formulated the theory of relativity?
#36. Which American physicist is known for the “Pilot Wave” interpretation of quantum mechanics?
#37. Which American physicist invented the cyclotron?
#38. Which American chemist discovered the element plutonium along with Glenn Seaborg?
#39. Which American inventor created the first practical electric motor?
#40. What is the chemical symbol for silver?
#41. What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
#42. What is the second most abundant element in the Earth’s crust?
#43. Which Canadian physicist won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering neutrino oscillations?
#44. Which American inventor patented the first practical automobile (Benz – German). Let’s ask: Which American company mass-produced the first affordable automobile?
#45. Which Canadian chemist invented the first process to extract nickel from ore?
#46. Which American chemist won two Nobel Prizes (Chemistry and Peace)?
#47. What is the chemical formula for table salt?
#48. What is the chemical formula for methane?
#49. Which American inventor built the first fully functional steamboat (Clermont) in 1807?
#50. Which American physicist is known as the “father of the atomic bomb”?
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