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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Wilhelm Roentgen.

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

3. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Eugene Wigner.
(c) Hans Gieger.
(d) Edward Teller.

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

5. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?
(a) Water tension.
(b) Atoms.
(c) Quantam theory.
(d) Atomic bomb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

3. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

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

5. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

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