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

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

3. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1866.

4. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1933.

5. Who teaches Bohr about radiochemistry?
(a) George de Hevesy.
(b) John Karman.
(c) Eugene Wigner.
(d) Ernest Rutherford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What gas do the Germans first introduce into the war at Ypres, contrary to the terms of the Hague Declaration of 1899?

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

3. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

4. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?

5. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

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