Mendeleiev
Vocabulary
Cury
Einstein
100

what element is has H as symbol ?

Hydrogen

100

French word for "marble".

Bille.

100

Did Marie Curie patent her radium discoveries for financial gain?

No, she refused to patent her work so that science would remain accessible to everyone.

100

Branch of physics created by Einstein along with Max Plank, but on which the former stopped working when he focused on relativity.

What is quantum physics.

200

Where is Mendeleïev from ?

Russia

200

Synonym for "tremendous"?

Huge

200

Were the harmful effects of radioactivity known in Marie Curie's day?

No, the dangers of radioactivity were discovered after several years of research and exposure.

200

What can be warped by mass, creating attraction between them?

Spacetime  

300

What is Mendeleiev's most famous discovery?

The periodic table of elements.

300
Synonym for "verbatim"?

Accurate.

300

Did Marie Curie discover two new chemical elements?

Yes (polonium and radium)

300

The planet of which the trajectory could'nt be explained by Newtonian mechanics.

Mercury

400

How many NATURAL elements are there?

 94

400

Meaning of "warped"?

Bent/Twisted

400

Does radium emit visible light in the dark?

Yes, radium emits a blue-green light when excited.

400

The concept carried by astronomers since the time of Aristotle, of which the existence was put in question by Stirling's experiments and burried by Einstein's theory.

What is ether?

500

How many man made elements exist?

24 elements.

500

What is a perihelion?

The point of a planet's orbit where it is closest to the sun.

500

Did Marie Curie open an institute to continue her research into radioactivity?

Yes, she founded the Institut Curie, which still exists today.

500

What type of vector, used in relativity, has a norm that isn't modified by the Lorentz transformation?

What is a four-vector?