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What do some historians of science refer to Faraday as? | the best experimentalist in the history of science |
Who was the sponsor and mentor of Faraday? | John 'Mad Jack' Fuller |
What did Faraday invent that is used almost universally in science laboratories? | the Bunsen burner |
What was the Faraday effect first called? | diamagnetism |
What was Michael Faraday`s birthplace? | Newington Butts |
What was Michael Faraday`s profession? | chemist and physicist |
How many years ago did Faraday report on the first synthesis of compound make from carbon and chlorine , c 2 h 6 and c 2 h 4 ? | 189 |
How many years ago was it when he discovered the phenomenon that he named diamagnetism , and what is now called the Faraday effect? | 164 |
How many years ago was it when Faraday wrote a letter to The Times on the subject of the foul condition of the River Thames , which resulted in an oft-reprinted cartoon in Punch? | 154 |
How many years ago was it when he discovered that the optical properties of gold colloids differed from those of the corresponding bulk metal? | 162 |
Who died at his house at Hampton Court on August 25, 1867? | Faraday |
Where did he serve two terms? | the Church of Scotland |
Who was born in Newington Butts, near present-day South London, England? | Michael Faraday |
Is it true that institution formed the foundation of electric motor technology? | no |
Institution formed the foundation of what? | modern electromagnetic technology |
When did Tesla demonstrate wireless communication (radio)? | 1893 |
What is the SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction? | the tesla |
What type of current did Tesla invent? | AC |
Who was the victor of the "War of Currents"? | Tesla |
Where did Tesla study electrical engineering? | the Austrian Polytechnic in Graz |
Was Alessandro Volta a professor of chemistry? | No |
Who did Alessandro Volta marry? | Alessandro Volta married Teresa Peregrini. |
What did Alessandro Volta invent in 1800? | voltaic pile |
What is the battery made by Alessandro Volta credited as? | The battery made by Volta is credited as the first electrochemical cell. |
Did Alessandro Volta die and retire in the same place? | Alessandro Volta retired and died in the same place. |
When did Alessandro Volta improve and popularize the electrophorus? | Alessandro Volta improved and popularized the electrophorus in 1775. |
How long was Alessandro Volta a professor at the University of Pavia? | Alessandro Volta was a professor at the University of Pavia for almost 25 years. |
Who made Volta a count? | Napoleon |
Where was Volta born? | Como |
When did Volta retire? | 1819 |
A year before improving and popularizing the electrophorus, what did Volta become? | A professor of physics at the Royal School in Como |
Was Volta buried where he died or was he buried someplace else? | where he died |
Did Volta marry before he became professor of experimental physics at the University of Pavia? | no |
What happened in 1810? | Volta was made a count by Napoleon. |
Who became a professor of physics at the Royal School in Como? | Volta. |
When was Volta made a count by Napoleon? | Volta was made a count by Napoleon in 1810. |
In what year did he become a professor of physics at the Royal School in Como? | 1774 |
Who first calculated the value of Avogadro's number? | Johann Josef Loschmidt |
What does Avogadro's Law state? | The relationship between the masses of the same volume of different gases (at the same temperature and pressure) corresponds to the relationship between their respective molecular weights |
Who showed that Avogadro's theory held in dilute solutions? | Jacobus Henricus van Hoff |
In what language was his 1811 paper published? | French |
Who was Avogadro's wife? | Felicita Mazz |
Why did Avogadro lose his chair at the University of Turin? | He was active in the revolutionary movements of 1821 against the king of Sardinia |
In 1820, Avogadro became a professor of physics where? | University of Turin |
Avogadro did not actually use what word? | atom |
The number of elementary entities in 1 mole of a substance is known as what? | Avogadro constant |
What would a German call Avogadro's number? | Loschmidt number |
Is Amedeo Avogadro Italian? | yes |
Did he become a professor before the revolutionary movements against the king of Sardinia? | Yes |
Who was Blaise Pascal's father? | His father, Étienne Pascal (1588–1651), who also had an interest in science and mathematics, was a local judge |
How old was Pascal when he lost his mother? | at the age of three |
Who was Pascal's younger sister? | Jacqueline |
What led Pascal to his religious conversion? | Two basic influences led him to his conversion: sickness and Jansenism |
How old was Pascal when he died? | 39 |
Did Pascal write about cycloid before 1658? | no |
Is there a programming language called Pascal? | yes |
Crowds of believers came to see and kiss the thorn; all of Catholic where acclaimed a miracle? | Paris |
Who died the next morning? | Pascal. |
When did his father die? | 1651 |
Was he a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a civil servant? | yes |
What is Charles-Augustin de Coulomb best known for? | He is best known for developing Coulomb's law. |
Whose ideas inspired Charles-Augustin de Coulomb's experiments on the resistance of masonries? | Pieter van Musschenbroek. |
When did Charles-Augustin de Coulomb join his father's family in Montpeillier? | From 1757 to 1759 he joined his father's family in Montpellier. |
Did Charles-Augustin de Coulomb come from a poor family? | No, his mother came from a wealthy family in the wool trade. |
What is Coulomb's law? | The definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. |
Where is Coll�ge des Quatre-Nations located? | In Montpellier. |
What happened in 1757 to 1759? | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb joined his father's family in Montpellier and took part in the work of the academy of the city. |
Regarding this topic, what did the Revolution do? | The Revolution caused Coulomb to resign his appointment as intendent des eaux et fontains and retire. |
Who determined to pursue mathematics? | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb |
When did Coulomb return to Paris? | In 1759. |
Whom did he share the Nobel Prize with? | Pierre and Marie Curie |
When did he die? | 1908 |
What is the SI unit for radioactivity called? | becquerel |
When Becquerel discovered radioactivity, whose work did he investigate? | Wilhelm Conrad R�ntgen |
Where are there craters named Becquerel? | Moon and Mars |
Why did Bequerel win the Nobel Prize in Physics? | discovery of spontaneous radioactivity |
Was Isaac Newton British? | Yes. |
Was Isaac Newton religious? | It is not clear. |
Where was Isaac Newton born? | At Woolsthorpe Manor in Woosthorpe-by-Colsterworth. |
Who shares credit with Isaac Newton for developing calculus? | Gottfried Leibniz. |
When did Isaac Newton discover the generalized binomial theorem? | In 1665. |
Did the Occult influence Newton's theory of gravitation? | Yes. |
Were Newton's religious views consistent with Anglicanism? | No. |
Which fruit inspired Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation? | The apple. |
When was the Principia published? | 1687 |
Where is there a Newton statue on display? | Oxford University Museum of Natural History |
Where was Isaac Newton buried? | Westminster Abbey |
What religion did Isaac Newton follow? | he never made a public declaration of his private faith |
What food gave Isaac Newton clues to his theory of gravity? | apple |
What was James Watt's father's job? | His father was a shipwright, ship owner and contractor, and served as the town's chief baillie. |
When did Watt retire? | In 1800. |
Where is the James Watt Memorial College? | In Greenock. |
Why is the watt named after Watt? | The watt is named after him for his contributions to the development of the steam engine. |
Where did Watt attend university? | Watt did not attend school regularly. |
What did he invent? | He invented a new method of measuring distances by telescope, a device for copying letters, improvements in the oil lamp, a steam mangle and a machine for copying sculptures. |
Wasn't Leonardo da Vinci valued as an engineer? | no |
Who left Verroccio's studio? | Leonardo da Vinci left Verroccio's studio. |
When did Baldassare Castiglione, author of Il Cortegiano ( " The Courtier " ), write? | 1528 |
When did he flee to Venice? | In 1499. |
Is the larger work now almost universally attributed to Leonardo? | Although previously attributed to Ghirlandaio, the larger work is now almost universally attributed to Leonardo. |
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