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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Exodus".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1949.

2. Who confirms the existence of a neutron?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Fyodor Vinbert.
(c) James Chadwick.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

3. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?
(a) Niels Bohr.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) Harry Moseley.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

4. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Yehuda Menuhia.
(b) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
(c) Lise Meitner.
(d) Marie Curie.

5. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?
(a) Gas.
(b) Radioactivity.
(c) Crystallography.
(d) Atoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?

2. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?

3. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

4. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

5. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

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