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fresh out of school or are relatively new to the work world. Come to think of it,
they would make equally excellent study material for the same persons who are going
to be interviewed for a job. Bonne chance, Viel Glück, がんばろう,
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This quiz is different from most of
the others. It tests your knowledge of the names of famous persons in science and engineering history. Most of us
are familiar with the last names of famous people, but how many firsts names can you match with the last names.
| First Name |
|
Last Name |
Reason for Fame |
|
| Svante |
|
Einstein |
Austrian/American physicist who developed the theory of relativity |
 |
| Gabriel |
|
Babbage |
English mathematician who developed the first programmable computer - mechanical |
 |
| Hedy |
|
Kepler |
German astronomer who developed planetary laws of motion |
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| Grace |
|
Joule |
English physicist who studied properties of heat |
 |
| Bill |
|
Van de Graaff |
American high voltage experimenter |
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| Jacques |
|
Armstrong |
American electrical engineer who developed FM radio |
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| Siméon |
|
Schottky |
German physicist who invented the screen-grid vacuum tube and discovered the Schottky effect |
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| Neils |
|
Bessel |
German mathematician who developed functions named after him |
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| Ernõ |
|
Brahe |
Danish astronomer who studied planetary motion |
 |
| Enrico |
|
von Siemens |
German scientist credited for founding electrical engineering in Germany, unit of conductance named after
him |
 |
| Isaac |
|
Rubik |
Hungarian architect who invented the Rubik's Cube |
 |
| Jean-Baptiste |
|
Tesla |
Serbian electrical engineer who dabbled in high voltages and wireless communications |
 |
| Albert |
|
Hopper |
American Navy admiral who coined the term computer "bug" |
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| Tycho |
|
Backus |
American computer scientist who developed the FORTRAN language |
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| Edwin |
|
Poisson |
French mathematician who developed the equations that bears his name |
 |
| Ernst |
|
Pascal |
French mathematician |
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| Carl |
|
d' Arsonval |
French physicist and inventor of the moving-coil galvanometer |
 |
| Hiram |
|
Baekeland |
Belgian chemist who invented Bakelite |
 |
| David |
|
Bardeen |
American engineers who invented the transistor |
 |
| Anders |
|
Halley |
English astronomer who discovered the comet named after him |
 |
| Marie |
|
Hewlett |
American electrical engineer, ½ of HP |
 |
| John |
|
Fahrenheit |
French physicist who created the Fahrenheit temperature scale |
 |
| James |
|
Gauss |
German mathematician who work with statistical distributions |
 |
| Jean |
|
Marconi |
Italian inventor who developed wireless communications |
 |
| Robert |
|
Biot |
French physicist who co-developed the Biot-Savart Law that describes the magnetic field generated by a an
electric current |
 |
| Thomas |
|
Watson-Watt |
English electrical engineer, "Father of Radar" |
 |
| André-Marie |
|
Torricelli |
Italian physicist who investigated pressures |
 |
| Friedrich |
|
Lamar |
American actress credited with conceiving of frequency-hopping spread spectrum |
 |
| Heinrich |
|
Röntgen |
German physicist who discovered x-rays |
 |
| Ludwig |
|
Bohr |
Danish physicist who developed the planetary model of atoms |
 |
| Walter |
|
Fourier |
French mathematician who developed the series named after him |
 |
| John |
|
Ohm |
German physicist who has the unit of resistance named after him |
 |
| Hermann |
|
Kirchhoff |
German physicist who developed laws on current and voltage in a closed circuit |
 |
| Lee |
|
Fermi |
Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor |
 |
| Blaise |
|
von Fraunhofer |
German astronomer who discovered solar absorption lines |
 |
| Nikola |
|
Lissajous |
French mathematician who's patterns can be created with the X-Y inputs of an o-scope |
 |
| Georg |
|
Boltzmann |
Austrian physicist who discovered the constant 1.3806503 × 10-23 m2 kg s-2 K-1 |
 |
| Wilhelm |
|
Arrhenius |
Swedish scientist who discovered the relationship of temperature on process rates - like electronics
accelerated aging |
 |
| Robert |
|
Curie |
Polish physicist famous for work in radioactivity |
 |
| Alexander |
|
Lenz |
Baltic German physicist who developed the magnetic induction law bearing his name |
 |
| Evangelista |
|
Packard |
American electrical engineer, ½ of HP |
 |
| Johannes |
|
Maxim |
ARRL founder |
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| Jules |
|
von Helmholtz |
German physicist who invented a coil arrangement that produces a uniform magnetic field within itself |
 |
| Leo |
|
De Forest |
American engineer who invented the Audion vacuum tube |
 |
| Charles |
|
Edison |
Prolific American inventor of the evil, Earth-murdering incandescent light bulb |
 |
| Edmond |
|
Ampère |
French physicist who experimented with electromagnetism and has unit of current named after him |
 |
| Joseph |
|
Ångström |
Swedish physicist who specialized in spectroscopy who has unit of wavelength named after him |
 |
| Gustav |
|
Newton |
English Physicist who formulated the law of gravity |
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| Guglielmo |
|
Bell |
American scientist who invented the telephone |
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