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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who designs the first working cyclotron?
(a) Lawrence.
(b) Rutherford.
(c) Oppenheimer.
(d) Chadwick.

2. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

3. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1903.

4. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Quantum mechanics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) Experimental physics.

5. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Max von Laue.
(b) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(c) James Maxwell.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Jewish scientists leave Hungary?

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

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

4. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

5. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

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