The greatest scientists of the USA
Ig Nobel Prize
Physics of XX century
100

Many of this Serbian American scientist inventions are widely known, even if they were never actually put into practice. Much of the work from later in his life, when he was working on things like “death beams,” is held by the US government and still highly classified.

Nikola Tesla

100

What is Ig Nobel Prize?

a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, its stated aim being to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think."

100

Who was the famous german scientist who moved to the USA in 1933?

Albert Einstein

200

He faced more than 600 lawsuits over his telephone patent.

Alexander Graham Bell

200

Physicist Robert A. J. Metthews earned the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in physics for his paper "Tumbling toast, Murphy's Law and the fundamental constants". What was he trying to explain in this research?

Why toast tends to fall buttered side down

200
What was Manhattan Project about?

It was a research and development undertaken during the World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. 

300

J. Robert Openheimer is often reffered to as the father of this. What was the biggest creation of this scientist?

Atomic bomb

300

What about pregnant women was research by the winners of 2009 Ig Nobel Prize?

They researched and explained why pregnant women are not constantly tripping over.

300

Famous American astronomer that has a space telescope named after him.

Edwin Powell Hubble

400

In 1965 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, and Julian Schwinger for "their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles."

Richard Feynman

400

Why is Ig Noиду Prize called this way?

The term “Ig Nobel” is a play on the word ignoble which means of low character, not of noble or royal descent.

400

Computer programming language that was developed by the Bell Labs emplyee in 1969-1973?

C programming language

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