Nobel Prize in Science Quiz
Instructions: How well do you remember the Nobel Prize-winning discoveries in physics, chemistry, and medicine?
- 1.
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect?
AAlbert EinsteinBMax PlanckCNiels BohrDWerner Heisenberg - 2.
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in which two scientific fields?
APhysics and MedicineBChemistry and BiologyCChemistry and MedicineDPhysics and Chemistry - 3.
Who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA?
AErwin Chargaff and Francis CrickBLinus Pauling and James WatsonCRosalind Franklin and Maurice WilkinsDJames Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins - 4.
Which physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his discovery of energy quanta?
AAlbert EinsteinBNiels BohrCErwin SchrödingerDMax Planck - 5.
Who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering blood groups?
APaul EhrlichBRobert KochCAlexander FlemingDKarl Landsteiner - 6.
Which scientist won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice, in 1954 and 1962?
AFrederick SangerBMarie CurieCLinus PaulingDJohn Bardeen - 7.
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 along with Marie and Pierre Curie?
AHenri BecquerelBJ.J. ThomsonCMax PlanckDWilhelm Röntgen - 8.
Which American physicist won two Nobel Prizes in Physics (1956 and 1972)?
ARobert MillikanBJohn BardeenCRichard FeynmanDMurray Gell-Mann - 9.
Who won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for discovering X-rays?
AWilhelm RöntgenBHenri BecquerelCJ.J. ThomsonDMax Planck - 10.
Alexander Fleming shared his Nobel Prize in Medicine with which two scientists?
AJoseph Lister and Ignaz SemmelweisBJonas Salk and Albert SabinCHoward Florey and Ernst Boris ChainDRobert Koch and Louis Pasteur - 11.
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for work in quantum electrodynamics?
ARichard FeynmanBPaul DiracCEnrico FermiDMurray Gell-Mann - 12.
Which scientist won the Nobel Prize for developing the theory of superconductivity?
ALeon CooperBJohn BardeenCRobert SchriefferDAll three shared it - 13.
Dorothy Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determining the structures of which important molecules?
ADNA and RNABPenicillin and vitamin B12CHemoglobin and myoglobinDInsulin and glucose - 14.
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for predicting the Higgs boson?
AGerard 't Hooft and Martinus VeltmanBSheldon Glashow and Steven WeinbergCStephen Hawking and Roger PenroseDPeter Higgs and François Englert - 15.
Barbara McClintock won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of what?
AReverse transcriptaseBPrionsCTransposable genetic elementsDRestriction enzymes