French or German? Trivia Quiz

Answer: German

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923) was a German physicist and recipient of the first Nobel Prize for Physics, in 1901 for his discovery of X-rays. He took the first X-ray photographs of the interiors of metal objects and of the bones in his wife's hand.

Answer: French

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794) was a French chemist and nobleman who co-authored the modern system for naming chemical substances (He named both oxygen and hydrogen). Unfortunately, due to him advising revolutionary governments on finance, he was put to death by guillotine.

Answer: German

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a German physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. He completed his general theory of relativity in 1915. Physicists questioned whether his equation E = mc2 might make an atomic bomb possible. He became an American citizen in 1940 and died in Princeton, NJ in 1955.

Answer: French

Antoine-Henri Becquerel (1852-1908) was a French physicist who discovered radioactivity through his investigations of uranium and other substances. The SI unit of a becquerel is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second. In 1903 he shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie.

Answer: German

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) was a German psychiatrist. He is credited with the first published case of "presenile dementia" in 1906, after studying the case of a middle-aged woman. The disease was named Alzheimer's disease in 1910 by Dr. Emil Kraepilin a co-worker of Alzheimer.

Answer: French

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736-1806) was a French physicist known for the formulation of Coulomb's law. The SI unit of electric charge equal to the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by a current of one ampere is named after him. Coulomb has many discoveries named after him among which are Coulomb friction, damping, explosion, wave function and potential.

Answer: German

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (1858-1947) was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory which revolutionized the way we see and understand the sub-atomic world. This led to him receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1918. There are over 80 Max Planck Institutes around the world which concentrate on different aspects of scientific research.

Answer: French

Edmond Locard (1877-1966) was a French Criminalist and scientist who was known as "Sherlock Holmes of France".
He developed multiple methods of forensic analysis that are still in use today including fingerprint research and blood stains.
Locard's most enduring contribution to forensic science is "Locard's Exchange Principle".Modern forensic science classifies this phenomenon as trace evidence.

Answer: French

André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)was a French physicist and mathematician known as the "Father of Electromagnetism". He was the inventor of numerous applications,such as the solenoid and the electrical telegraph. He also recognized the existence of the element fluorine. The SI unit of electrical current is named after him.

Answer: German

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. Until his research, scientists, particularly Copernicus, thought that a planets orbit was perfectly circular, and not elliptical as Kepler discovered on his studies of the planet Mars.