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The Fife Science Festival

What have you learned?

Here are some questions about Fife’s scientists and innovators. All of the answers may be found on the pages of this website. This being said, the answer sheet may be found at the bottom of this page.

 

1. Who is the first person to be called a scientist?

2. Who invented the incandescent light bulb?

3. Who is the father of immunology?

4. Who invented algorithms?

5. Who is called the father of Scottish photography?

6. Who is the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Britain?

7. Who is credited with Christiaan Huygens for inventing the pendulum clock?

8. Which Markinch-born man has saved millions of asthma sufferers world-wide?

9. Who was the first to produce ice artificially?

10.    Who invented the first horse-powered harvesting machine?

11. Who received a Nobel Prize for determining the structure of DNA with James Watson & Francis Crick?

12. Who is responsible for the Simson line?

13. What St Andrews Professor designed the reflecting telescope first made by Robert Hooke?

14. What Burntisland astronomer earned a NASA service medal in 1998?

15. What St Andrews Professor was influential in creating one of Fife’s hidden gems with 18 acres of botanic garden?

16. Who invented the kaleidoscope?

17. Whose work on the HMS Challenger contributed to the formal study of oceanography?

18. What does RADAR stand for and who invented it?

19. Which Fifer patented a tunneling shield with Marc Isambard Brunel in 1818, which Brunel and his son used to construct the Thames Tunnel?

20. Who invented the Polish mine detector in St Andrews in 1941?

 

 

Answer Sheet

 

1. Mary Somerville

2. Thomas Edison is credited with the invention, but James Lindsay demonstrated such a light bulb in   Dundee in 1835.

3. Edward Jenner

4. John Napier

5. John Adamson

6. Elizabeth Anderson

7. Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine

8. Sir James W. Black

9. John Leslie

10.      Rev Patrick Bell

11. Maurice Wilkins

12. William Wallace

13. James Gregory, it is known as the Gregorian telescope

14. Anneila Sargent

15. Professor William Carmichael M’Intosh

16. Professor Sir David Brewster

17. Professor George Stewardson Brady

18. Radio Detection and Ranging—Sir Robert Watson Watt

19. Admiral Thomas Cochrane, Lord Dundonald

20. Lieutenant Josef Kozacki

 

 

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