Q 01/05

Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation, founding classical mechanics?

A) Isaac Newton

B) Albert Einstein

C) Galileo Galilei

D) Johannes Kepler

Answer · why

A) Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton's work, particularly his 'Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,' introduced the three laws of motion and the law of universal grav...

Q 02/05

Which physicist developed special relativity in 1905?

A) Niels Bohr

B) Max Planck

C) Albert Einstein

D) Werner Heisenberg

Answer · why

C) Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, published in 1905, introduced groundbreaking concepts such as the relativity of simultaneity and the e...

Q 03/05

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two sciences?

A) Lise Meitner

B) Marie Curie

C) Rosalind Franklin

D) Dorothy Hodgkin

Answer · why

B) Marie Curie

Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband and Henri Becquerel, and then the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911 for her di...

Q 04/05

Which black-hole physicist wrote 'A Brief History of Time'?

A) Kip Thorne

B) Roger Penrose

C) Stephen Hawking

D) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Answer · why

C) Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time sat on the Sunday Times bestseller list for a record 237 weeks, and Hawking is also the namesake of the radiation black holes ...

Q 05/05

Which originator of quantum theory won the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics?

A) Erwin Schrödinger

B) Max Planck

C) Paul Dirac

D) Richard Feynman

Answer · why

B) Max Planck

Max Planck introduced the concept of energy quanta in 1900, laying the groundwork for quantum theory and revolutionizing physics. He was awarded the N...