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A) Naval engineer in the Austrian navy B) Commissioned officer in the Austrian fortress artillery C) Medical doctor at the frontline D) Infantry general in the German army
A) Paul Dirac B) Max Planck C) Max Wien D) Albert Einstein
A) Ordentlicher Professor B) Research Fellow C) Ausserordentlicher Professor D) Department Chair
A) University of Zurich B) University of Breslau C) University of Jena D) University of Berlin
A) University of Zurich B) Princeton University C) University of Berlin D) University of Oxford
A) Max Wien B) Max Planck C) Albert Einstein D) Paul Dirac
A) He strongly disapproved of the Nazis' antisemitism B) He was drafted into the military C) He retired from academic life D) He was offered a better salary in England
A) Balliol College, Oxford B) Magdalen College, Oxford C) King's College, London D) Trinity College, Cambridge
A) Paul Dirac B) Albert Einstein C) Max Wien D) Max Planck
A) His lack of publishing research papers B) His refusal to teach undergraduate students C) His unconventional domestic arrangements sharing living quarters with two women D) His poor English language skills
A) Princeton University B) Yale University C) Columbia University D) Harvard University
A) His wish to set up house with his wife and his mistress may have created a problem B) He was homesick for Austria C) He preferred to stay in Oxford permanently D) The salary was too low to support his family
A) Contract disputes B) Visa delays C) Travel bans D) Health issues
A) 1938 B) 1933 C) 1936 D) 1934
A) University of Calcutta B) Allahabad University C) Aligarh Muslim University D) University of Delhi
A) Albert Einstein B) Paul Dirac C) Max Planck D) Max Wien
A) 1938 B) 1933 C) 1935 D) 1927
A) The German annexation of Austria B) The signing of the Munich Agreement C) The outbreak of World War I D) The fall of the Berlin Wall
A) His refusal to pay local taxes B) His known opposition to Nazism C) His political campaign for the opposition party D) His failure to teach classes
A) He was promised a higher academic rank B) I wanted to remain free – and could not do so without great duplicity C) He was ordered to do so by the university president D) He genuinely changed his political views
A) Unexcused absences B) Financial fraud C) Political unreliability D) Academic incompetence
A) England B) Italy C) United States D) India
A) Oxford and Ghent universities B) Princeton and Harvard universities C) Berlin and Zurich universities D) Jena and Stuttgart universities
A) Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Lausanne B) London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton C) Gorizia, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna D) Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne
A) 12 August 1887 B) 12 August 1906 C) 4 January 1961 D) 4 January 1933
A) 1955 B) 4 January 1961 C) 12 August 1887 D) 1938
A) Astronomy B) Theoretical physics C) Molecular biology D) Organic chemistry
A) Maxwell's equations B) Schrödinger equation C) Dirac equation D) Einstein field equation
A) 1961 B) 1933 C) 1935 D) 1910
A) Schrödinger's cat B) Wave function C) Black hole D) Quantum entanglement
A) Nature and the Greeks B) What Is Life? C) Statistical Thermodynamics D) The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory
A) Schrödinger's cat B) Quantum tunneling C) The uncertainty principle D) The atomic model
A) Dublin, Ireland B) Vienna, Austria C) Oxford, England D) Berlin, Germany
A) Cancer B) Pneumonia C) Influenza D) Tuberculosis
A) Mathematician B) Botanist C) Physicist D) Chemistry professor
A) 1914 B) 1906 C) 1887 D) 1910
A) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch B) Wilhelm Wirtinger C) Friedrich Hasenöhrl D) Franz S. Exner
A) Lutheran B) Atheist C) Jewish D) Catholic
A) Lutheran B) Eastern Orthodox C) Catholic D) Atheist
A) Catholic B) Atheist C) Lutheran D) Devout Christian
A) 1914 B) 1933 C) 1906 D) 1910
A) James D. Watson B) Éamon de Valera C) Francis Crick D) Galileo
A) 1955 B) 1948 C) 1939 D) 1953
A) Merrion Square B) De Valera Way C) Kincora Road D) Trinity Street
A) Merrion Square B) The Irish Press building C) Trinity College Dublin D) The King's Hospital
A) 1940 B) 1939 C) 1955 D) 1948
A) Exactly five B) About ten C) About five hundred D) About fifty
A) The DNA double helix B) Quantum mechanics foundations C) Galilean dialogue manuscripts D) Unified field theory
A) Francis Crick B) James D. Watson C) Galileo D) Éamon de Valera
A) The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies B) Trinity College Dublin C) The King's Hospital D) Kincora Road
A) 1920 B) 1961 C) 1955 D) 1956
A) A lecture on electrical engineering B) A philosophical lecture C) A political lecture D) A lecture on wave-particle duality
A) The particle idea alone B) The wave idea alone C) Capillary pressure formulas D) Atmospheric radioactivity
A) Alpbach, Austria B) Vienna, Austria C) Zeehame D) Arosa, Switzerland
A) 73 B) 83 C) 53 D) 63
A) The editors of the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism B) Victor Hess C) Franz Exner D) Fritz Kohlrausch
A) Wave Mechanics B) Dielectrism C) Capillary Pressure D) Brownian Motion
A) Wave-particle duality B) Probable height distribution C) Velocity of coherent light D) Capillary pressure in gas bubbles
A) 1913 B) 1912 C) 1920 D) 1914
A) The Pope B) Fritz Kohlrausch C) Victor Hess D) Franz Exner
A) Nobel Prize B) Haitinger Prize C) Pontifical Prize D) Arosa Prize
A) The University of Vienna rector B) Victor Hess C) Franz Exner D) Fritz Kohlrausch
A) 1912 B) 1956 C) 1913 D) 1919
A) Coherent light B) Atmospheric radioactivity C) Capillary pressure D) Nuclear power
A) Thermodynamic equilibrium considerations B) Newtonian gravity considerations C) Hydrodynamic flow considerations D) Relativistic considerations
A) Wolfgang Pauli B) Niels Bohr C) Hermann Weyl D) Max Planck
A) The Michelson-Morley experiment B) The Stern-Gerlach experiment C) The Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment D) The Franck-Hertz experiment
A) He quickly abandoned it after 1922 B) He considered it a major mathematical error C) It was a lifelong attraction for him D) He only used it in his final academic paper
A) Physical Review B) Nature C) Annalen der Physik D) Proceedings of the Royal Society
A) Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem B) Über die Beziehung zwischen der Heisenbergschen Quantenmechanik und der meinigen C) Grundzüge einer neuen Quantentheorie D) Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik
A) Scattering problem solutions B) Matrix element calculations C) The Stark effect treatment D) Correct energy eigenvalues
A) Hydrogen molecule ion B) Diatomic molecule C) Water molecule D) Polyatomic molecule
A) Harmonic rotator B) Rigid rotor C) Spherical top D) Elastic rotor
A) Niels Bohr B) Albert Einstein C) Werner Heisenberg D) Max Born
A) Photoelectric effect B) Zeeman effect C) Stark effect D) Compton effect
A) Scattering problems B) Eigenvalue problems C) Harmonic oscillations D) Matrix calculations
A) Six B) One C) Two D) Four
A) Double-slit experiment B) EPR paradox C) Schrödinger's cat D) Wigner's friend
A) Vienna physicists B) Copenhagen physicists C) Göttingen physicists D) Berlin physicists
A) Shitty matrix elements B) Scattering amplitudes C) Energy eigenvalues D) Time-dependent equations
A) General relativity B) Special relativity C) Quantum electrodynamics D) Newtonian mechanics
A) 1947 B) 1920s C) 1956 D) 1952
A) As revolutionary B) As preliminary C) As mathematically flawless D) As complete
A) Weltbild B) Leuchtkraft C) Tagessehen D) Farbenmetrik
A) Keith K. Niall B) David L. MacAdam C) Albert Einstein D) Arthur Schopenhauer
A) Spinoza's B) Newton's C) Einstein's D) Schopenhauer's
A) Indian philosophy B) Ancient Greek philosophy C) German idealism D) British empiricism
A) Om mani padme hum B) Aham Brahmasmi C) Sat cit ananda D) Tat tvam asi
A) 1920 B) 1947 C) 1956 D) 1952
A) Bas van Fraassen B) Arthur Schopenhauer C) Albert Einstein D) David L. MacAdam
A) Materialist monism B) Dualistic monism C) Post-Machian neutral monism D) Idealist monism
A) 3 October 1965 B) 3 December 1896 C) 1938 D) 6 April 1920
A) 3 October 1965 B) 3 December 1896 C) 1934 D) 6 April 1920
A) Yes, they had a son named Terry B) No, the marriage remained childless C) Yes, they had multiple children D) Yes, they had one daughter
A) An open relationship B) A divorced relationship C) A long-distance relationship D) A strictly monogamous relationship
A) 1938 B) 1939 C) 1920 D) 1934
A) 1934 B) 1920 C) 1965 D) 1938
A) Colleague B) Prime Minister of the UK C) Taoiseach D) Physicist
A) October 1965 B) December 1896 C) October 1939 D) April 1920
A) 3 December 1896 B) October 1939 C) 3 October 1965 D) 6 April 1920 |