An electric current in a circuit consists of what particles?
Electrons
How many electrons can be in the first three electron shells of an atom?
How many electrons can be in the first three electron shells of an atom?
2, 8 and 18
How many electrons are there in the outer shell of a carbon based semi-conductor device?
How many electrons are there in the outer shell of a carbon based semi-conductor device?
4
The first atomic bomb was created under the supervision of
which atomic physicist?
Oppenheimer
The most widely accepted theory of the creation of the
universe is known as what?
Big Bang
This element has the Latin name "aurum", which is shortened to "Au", and is number 79 in the periodic table. What's it English name?
Gold
We inhale this element with each breath, but what is the number of oxygen in the periodic table?
8
What Austrian-born physicist won the 1945 Nobel Prize after
being nominated by Albert Einstein?
Wolfgang Pauli
What Danish physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1922?
Niels Bohr
What German physicist proposed the uncertainty relation?
Werner Heisenberg
What German physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1918 for the
discovery of energy quanta?
Max Planck
What German physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his
work with quantum physics?
Max Born
What is "Cr" in the periodic table?
Chromium
What is the name of the scientist who won the Nobel Prize
for Physics for his work on photoelectric effect?
Albert Einstein
What Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist was vital in
forming the basis of wave mechanics?
Erwin Schrodinger
What physicist first suggested that all matter has wave properties?
Louis de Broglie
What physicist won the Nobel Prize in 1937 for his discovery
of electron diffraction?
Clinton Davisson
What scientist discovered the existence of electrons in
cathode rays?
Joseph Thomson
What's the charge of a proton?
Positive
What's the formula for the electron shell's maximum electron number in the classic model of an atom?
2*n^2
What's the name for atoms with the same number of protons in the nucleus but different numbers of neutrons?
Isotopes
What's the name of water molecules containing the isotope deuterium, which were extracted in Norway by the Germans during WWII?
Heavy water
Who created the world’s first nuclear reactor?
Enrico Fermi
Who is known as the father of nuclear physics?
Ernest Rutherford
Who's considered the father of the atomic bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Who's credited with discovering the electron?
JJ Thomson
Who won the Nobel Prize in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear
magnetic resistance?
Isidor Isaac Rabi