Chemistry: Famous Chemists

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Chemistry: Famous Chemists.

1. What Swedish chemist helped to develop the notation for writing chemical formulas?
a. Amedeo Avogadro
b. Jons Jacob Berzelius
c. Robert Boyle
d. Marie Curie
e. John Dalton

2. What English chemist contributed to the atomic theory about atoms and elements?
a. Amedeo Avogadro
b. Jons Jacob Berzelius
c. Robert Boyle
d. Marie Curie
e. John Dalton

3. What Italian scientist discovered that equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of molecules when under the same conditions of temperature and pressure?
a. Amedeo Avogadro
b. Jons Jacob Berzelius
c. Robert Boyle
d. Marie Curie
e. John Dalton

4. Who is considered the first modern chemist and a pioneer of the scientific method?
a. Amedeo Avogadro
b. Jons Jacob Berzelius
c. Robert Boyle
d. Marie Curie
e. John Dalton

5. What Polish chemist coined the term 'radioactivity'?
a. Amedeo Avogadro
b. Jons Jacob Berzelius
c. Robert Boyle
d. Marie Curie
e. John Dalton

6. What French chemist is called the 'father of modern chemistry' and developed the 'law of conservation of mass'?
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. Rosalind Franklin
c. Antoine Lavoisier
d. Dmitri Mendeleyev
e. Alfred Nobel

7. What Swedish chemist invented dynamite?
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. Rosalind Franklin
c. Antoine Lavoisier
d. Dmitri Mendeleyev
e. Alfred Nobel

8. What scientist used X-Ray diffraction to help discover the DNA double helix?
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. Rosalind Franklin
c. Antoine Lavoisier
d. Dmitri Mendeleyev
e. Alfred Nobel

9. What chemist isolated and discovered many elements using electrolysis?
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. Rosalind Franklin
c. Antoine Lavoisier
d. Dmitri Mendeleyev
e. Alfred Nobel

10. What Russian chemist helped develop the Periodic Table?
a. Sir Humphry Davy
b. Rosalind Franklin
c. Antoine Lavoisier
d. Dmitri Mendeleyev
e. Alfred Nobel


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