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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovers X-rays?
(a) Wilhelm Roentgen.
(b) Leo Szilard.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

2. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Refrigeration.
(b) Thermodynamics.
(c) Nuclear physics.
(d) General physics.

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

4. When does Bohr win the Nobel Prize in physics?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1913.

5. What does Max Planck discover?
(a) The atom.
(b) A universal constant.
(c) Home refrigeration theory.
(d) The neutron.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

3. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?

4. Who discovers radio waves in 1893?

5. In 1873, what physicist says that atoms do not exist?

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