All Categories MCQs
Topic Notes: All Categories
General Description
Plato
- Biography: Ancient Greek philosopher (427–347 BCE), student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founder of the Academy in Athens.
- Important Ideas:
- Theory of Forms
- Philosopher-King
- Ideal State
60721
Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1977 for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of:
Answer:
Dissipative structures
Prigogine showed how order can emerge from chaos in systems far from equilibrium.
60722
Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 along with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow for the electroweak theory?
Answer:
Steven Weinberg
Weinberg, Salam, and Glashow unified the weak force and electromagnetic force into the electroweak force.
60723
John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of:
Answer:
Cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain
They discovered 'place cells' and 'grid cells' that allow the brain to map space, often called the brain's inner GPS.
60724
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1912 for the discovery of the Grignard reagent?
Answer:
Victor Grignard
The Grignard reagent is one of the most important tools in organic chemistry for forming carbon-carbon bonds.
60725
George Beadle and Edward Tatum shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering that:
Answer:
Genes act by regulating definite chemical events (One gene-one enzyme)
Their hypothesis established the link between genes and enzymatic reactions.
60726
Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of:
Answer:
Complex physical systems (Climate Change)
Manabe and Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth's climate and how humanity influences it.
60727
Who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for the discovery of quasicrystals?
Answer:
Dan Shechtman
Shechtman discovered patterns in atoms that were ordered but not repeating, which was previously thought impossible.
60728
Max von Laue won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1914 for his discovery of:
Answer:
The diffraction of X-rays by crystals
This discovery proved that X-rays are electromagnetic waves and enabled the study of crystal structures (X-ray crystallography).
60729
Who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1998 for discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovascular system?
Answer:
Furchgott, Ignarro, and Murad
They discovered that a gas, nitric oxide, acts as a signal to relax blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
60730
Hermann Joseph Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1946 for the discovery that mutations can be induced by:
Answer:
X-ray irradiation
Muller proved that X-rays caused genetic mutations in fruit flies, highlighting the dangers of radiation.