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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Ernest Rutherford win the Nobel Prize in chemistry?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1906.

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?
(a) University of Copenhagen.
(b) University of Berlin.
(c) University of Edinburgh.
(d) University of Manchester.

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

4. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Niels Bohr.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

2. Where does Leo Szilard go from Berlin the day before the Nazis confiscate the rail system?

3. What does J.J. Thompson discover?

4. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

5. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

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