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1.  Pioneer in developing gas laws; also designed weapons for Napoleon.
     (a) Joseph Gay-Lussac    (b) Antoine Lavoisier   (c) Henri  Le Chatelier

2.  Given credit for developing first modern atomic theory.
     (a) Galileo Galilei    (b) John Dalton    (c) Michael Faraday

3.  First to separate mirror-image molecules.
     (a) Louis Pasteur    (b) William Steromer   (c) Frederick Vesper

4.  Given credit for first periodic table.
     (a) Benjamin Franklin    (b) Dmitri Mendeleev    (c) Max Zinc

5.  First Nobel Chemistry Laureate.
     (a) Emil Fisher    (b) Jacobus Van't Hoff    (c) Francois Raoult

6.  Advocate of free energy; by 1900 considered greatest born  American scientist.
     (a) Albert Einstein    (b) J. Willard Gibbs    (c) Max Planck

7.  Although given low rating for doctoral thesis (ionic theory), awarded Nobel Prize.
     (a) Svante Arrenhius    (b) August Kekule    (c) Ludwig Boltzmann

8.  This radiation physicist looked at chemistry with disdain; ironically was awarded
     Noble Prize in chemistry.
     (a) Marie Curie    (b) Ernest Rutherford    (c) J.J. Thomson

9.  Grandfather of Olivia Newton-John and Nobel Physics Laureate.
     (a) Max Born    (b) Isaac Newton   (c) Tim Vierheller

10. Considered greatest American chemist not to have won Nobel Prize.
      (a) Acidio Dotman   (b) Gilbert Lewis    (c) Edwin Thall

11. Known as the father of quantum theory.
      (a) Niels Bohr    (b) Erwin Schrodinger    (c) Werner Heisenberg

12. Calculated existence of positron (electron with positive charge).
      (a) Paul Dirac    (b) Enrico Fermi   (c) Robert Oppenheimer

13. Awarded one Nobel Prize for chemistry and one for peace.
      (a) Monica Lewinsky     (b) Linus Pauling    (c) Albert Schweitzer

 
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