exam questions with complete
solutions
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Luis Alvarez (#1) - n
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He participated in the Manhattan Project.
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Charles E. Anderson (#2) - n
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He joined the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
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Mary Anning (#3) - n
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She had nine siblings, although only her and her older brother Joseph survived until
adulthood.
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Archimedes (#4) - n
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He supposedly yelled Eureka when he figured out the answer to a problem the king
had.
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Amedeo Avogrado (#5) - n
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He had six children.
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Patricia Bath (#6) - n
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She claims that her "personal best moment" was when she helped restore the
eyesight of a woman who had been blind for over 30 years.
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Alexander Graham Bell (#7) - n
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The first words that he said on his telephone were "Mr. Watson, come here. I want
to see you."
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Daniel Bernoulli (#8) - n
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His father plagiarized his son's work (Hydrodynamica), writing a book called
Hydraulica and changing the dates out of jealousy.
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Elizabeth Blackwell (#9) - n
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She got rejected by 29 medical schools before she was admitted to Geneva Medical
College.
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Niels Bohr (#10) - n
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He was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project
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, Robert Boyle (#11) - n
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In 1654 he was invited to Oxford.
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Tycho Brahe (#12) - n
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He lost his nose in 1566 in a duel with Manderup Parsberg, a fellow Danish student
at the University of Rostock and his third cousin.
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Brahmagupta (#13) - n
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Late in his life, Brahmagupta wrote Khandakhadyaka (665; "A Piece Eatable"), an
astronomical handbook that employed Aryabhata's system of starting each day at
midnight.
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Robert Bunsen (#14) - n
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He taught at the Universities of Marburg and Breslau and elsewhere.
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Santiago Ramon Y Cajal (#15) - n
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He served as professor of descriptive anatomy at the University of Valencia (1884-
87) and professor of histology and pathological anatomy at the universities of
Barcelona.
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Rachel Carson (#16) - n