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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Exodus".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Rutherford announce that he splits the atom?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1907.

3. Who reorganizes the Hungarian school system along German lines?
(a) Mor Karman.
(b) Von Neumann.
(c) Michael Polanyi.
(d) Eugene Wigner.

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

5. Where is particle acceleration developed?
(a) Manchester.
(b) Berkeley.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Budapest.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?

2. What is hailed as the beginning of true nuclear physics?

3. When does Rutherford discover a radioactive gas emanating from thorium?

4. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

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

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