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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 "Machines".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
(a) The neutron.
(b) The electron.
(c) The proton.
(d) The atom.

2. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?
(a) Polanyi.
(b) Karman.
(c) de Hevesy.
(d) Schossberger.

3. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?
(a) Cavendish Laboratory.
(b) Marie Curie's Radium Institute.
(c) University of Manchester.
(d) Berkeley.

4. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?
(a) Ernest Rutherford.
(b) Max Planck.
(c) Albert Teller.
(d) Leo Szilard.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?

2. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?

3. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

4. What kind of planes does Germany use to bomb England?

5. Who determines how to use x-ray spectroscopy to study atoms?

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