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