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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 "Tvi".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) General physics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Refrigeration.
(d) Thermodynamics.

2. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?
(a) Fyodor Vinbert.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) James Chadwick.

3. Who conceives the atomic bomb?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) James Chadwick.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Leo Szilard.

4. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) The neutron.
(b) The atom.
(c) Home refrigeration theory.
(d) A universal constant.

5. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Theodor von Penski.
(c) Chaim Weizmann.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

2. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?

3. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

4. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

5. What is the topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

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