Questions & Answers
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History of Advanced Physics study set below.
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1
Which physicist was the first to propose the concept of 'quanta' in his 1900 derivation of the blackbody radiation law?
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A
Max Planck
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B
Albert Einstein
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C
Niels Bohr
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D
Louis de Broglie
2
In 1932, who discovered the neutron, resolving the issue of missing mass in the atomic nucleus?
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A
Ernest Rutherford
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B
James Chadwick
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C
Enrico Fermi
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D
Wolfgang Pauli
3
The 'Solvay Conference' of 1927 is famous for the intense debate between Einstein and Bohr regarding the interpretation of which theory?
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A
Special Relativity
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B
Quantum Mechanics
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C
General Relativity
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D
Thermodynamics
4
Who was the first person to verify the existence of electromagnetic waves experimentally in 1887?
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A
James Clerk Maxwell
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B
Heinrich Hertz
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C
Nikola Tesla
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D
Oliver Heaviside
5
Which scientist is credited with the 1909 oil drop experiment that determined the elementary charge of an electron?
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A
Robert Millikan
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B
J.J. Thomson
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C
Ernest Lawrence
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D
Harvey Fletcher
6
In 1925, who formulated the exclusion principle stating that no two electrons can occupy the same quantum state simultaneously?
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A
Werner Heisenberg
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B
Erwin Schrödinger
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C
Wolfgang Pauli
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D
Paul Dirac
7
Which experimental finding in 1919 provided the first major confirmation of General Relativity by observing the deflection of starlight?
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A
Michelson-Morley experiment
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B
Eddington's solar eclipse expedition
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C
Pound-Rebka experiment
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D
Hafele-Keating experiment
8
Who received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics specifically for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect?
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A
Albert Einstein
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B
Max Planck
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C
Philipp Lenard
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D
Robert Millikan
9
The concept of 'matrix mechanics' was independently developed in 1925 by which group of physicists?
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A
Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan
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B
Bohr, Sommerfeld, and Pauli
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C
Schrödinger, de Broglie, and Dirac
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D
Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga
10
Who predicted the existence of antimatter by deriving a relativistic equation for the electron in 1928?
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A
Paul Dirac
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B
Richard Feynman
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C
Julian Schwinger
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D
Murray Gell-Mann
11
Which 1933 event marked the beginning of high-energy particle physics by confirming the existence of the positron?
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A
Carl Anderson's cloud chamber observations
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B
The discovery of the muon
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C
The invention of the cyclotron
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D
The first fission experiment
12
What is the name of the 1935 paper that highlighted the 'spooky action at a distance' paradox in quantum mechanics?
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A
EPR paper
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B
Bell's Theorem
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C
The Copenhagen Manifesto
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D
The Bohr-Einstein Correspondence
13
Who first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930 to account for energy conservation in beta decay?
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A
Wolfgang Pauli
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B
Enrico Fermi
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C
Lise Meitner
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D
Frederick Reines
14
In 1913, who published a series of papers proposing a model of the atom where electrons travel in discrete orbits?
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A
Niels Bohr
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B
Ernest Rutherford
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C
J.J. Thomson
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D
Arnold Sommerfeld
15
Which laboratory in Chicago achieved the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction in 1942?
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A
CP-1 (Chicago Pile-1)
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B
Los Alamos
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C
Oak Ridge
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D
Hanford Site
16
Who developed the first practical maser in 1953 at Columbia University?
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A
Charles Townes
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B
Arthur Schawlow
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C
Theodore Maiman
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D
Alfred Kastler
17
The 'BCS theory', which explains superconductivity, was proposed in 1957 by which three physicists?
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A
Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer
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B
Bloch, Casimir, and Silsbee
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C
Bogoliubov, Ginzburg, and Landau
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D
Bednorz, Müller, and Chu
18
Which experimental physicist demonstrated that parity is not conserved in weak nuclear interactions in 1956?
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A
Chien-Shiung Wu
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B
Tsung-Dao Lee
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C
Chen-Ning Yang
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D
Emilio Segrè
19
The quark model of hadrons was independently proposed in 1964 by which two physicists?
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A
Murray Gell-Mann and George Zweig
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B
Richard Feynman and Frank Wilczek
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C
Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg
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D
Abdus Salam and Peter Higgs
20
Which massive particle was confirmed in 2012 by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, validating the mechanism proposed in 1964?
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A
Higgs boson
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B
Top quark
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C
Tau neutrino
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D
W boson
