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A) Medical doctor at the frontline B) Naval engineer in the Austrian navy C) Commissioned officer in the Austrian fortress artillery D) Infantry general in the German army
A) Paul Dirac B) Max Planck C) Max Wien D) Albert Einstein
A) Ordentlicher Professor B) Department Chair C) Research Fellow D) Ausserordentlicher Professor
A) University of Zurich B) University of Berlin C) University of Jena D) University of Breslau
A) University of Zurich B) Princeton University C) University of Oxford D) University of Berlin
A) Paul Dirac B) Max Wien C) Albert Einstein D) Max Planck
A) He retired from academic life B) He was drafted into the military C) He strongly disapproved of the Nazis' antisemitism D) He was offered a better salary in England
A) Magdalen College, Oxford B) Balliol College, Oxford C) Trinity College, Cambridge D) King's College, London
A) Max Wien B) Max Planck C) Paul Dirac D) Albert Einstein
A) His lack of publishing research papers B) His refusal to teach undergraduate students C) His poor English language skills D) His unconventional domestic arrangements sharing living quarters with two women
A) Columbia University B) Harvard University C) Yale University D) Princeton University
A) He was homesick for Austria B) The salary was too low to support his family C) He preferred to stay in Oxford permanently D) His wish to set up house with his wife and his mistress may have created a problem
A) Contract disputes B) Travel bans C) Visa delays D) Health issues
A) 1936 B) 1934 C) 1933 D) 1938
A) Allahabad University B) Aligarh Muslim University C) University of Delhi D) University of Calcutta
A) Paul Dirac B) Albert Einstein C) Max Planck D) Max Wien
A) 1927 B) 1938 C) 1935 D) 1933
A) The signing of the Munich Agreement B) The outbreak of World War I C) The German annexation of Austria D) The fall of the Berlin Wall
A) His known opposition to Nazism B) His refusal to pay local taxes C) His political campaign for the opposition party D) His failure to teach classes
A) I wanted to remain free – and could not do so without great duplicity B) He genuinely changed his political views C) He was promised a higher academic rank D) He was ordered to do so by the university president
A) Financial fraud B) Academic incompetence C) Unexcused absences D) Political unreliability
A) United States B) Italy C) England D) India
A) Oxford and Ghent universities B) Berlin and Zurich universities C) Jena and Stuttgart universities D) Princeton and Harvard universities
A) Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Lausanne B) Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Cologne C) London, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton D) Gorizia, Duino, Sistiana, Prosecco, Vienna
A) 4 January 1961 B) 4 January 1933 C) 12 August 1906 D) 12 August 1887
A) 1955 B) 1938 C) 4 January 1961 D) 12 August 1887
A) Molecular biology B) Theoretical physics C) Organic chemistry D) Astronomy
A) Maxwell's equations B) Schrödinger equation C) Einstein field equation D) Dirac equation
A) 1933 B) 1961 C) 1935 D) 1910
A) Wave function B) Schrödinger's cat C) Black hole D) Quantum entanglement
A) Statistical Thermodynamics B) What Is Life? C) The Physical Principles of Quantum Theory D) Nature and the Greeks
A) Quantum tunneling B) Schrödinger's cat C) The atomic model D) The uncertainty principle
A) Dublin, Ireland B) Berlin, Germany C) Vienna, Austria D) Oxford, England
A) Tuberculosis B) Pneumonia C) Cancer D) Influenza
A) Physicist B) Mathematician C) Chemistry professor D) Botanist
A) 1906 B) 1887 C) 1914 D) 1910
A) Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch B) Friedrich Hasenöhrl C) Wilhelm Wirtinger D) Franz S. Exner
A) Atheist B) Catholic C) Jewish D) Lutheran
A) Lutheran B) Catholic C) Eastern Orthodox D) Atheist
A) Catholic B) Atheist C) Lutheran D) Devout Christian
A) 1933 B) 1910 C) 1914 D) 1906
A) Francis Crick B) Éamon de Valera C) James D. Watson D) Galileo
A) 1948 B) 1953 C) 1939 D) 1955
A) Kincora Road B) Merrion Square C) De Valera Way D) Trinity Street
A) The King's Hospital B) Merrion Square C) Trinity College Dublin D) The Irish Press building
A) 1940 B) 1948 C) 1955 D) 1939
A) About fifty B) About five hundred C) Exactly five D) About ten
A) Unified field theory B) Galilean dialogue manuscripts C) The DNA double helix D) Quantum mechanics foundations
A) Francis Crick B) Galileo C) James D. Watson D) Éamon de Valera
A) Kincora Road B) The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies C) The King's Hospital D) Trinity College Dublin
A) 1955 B) 1956 C) 1920 D) 1961
A) A political lecture B) A lecture on electrical engineering C) A philosophical lecture D) A lecture on wave-particle duality
A) Capillary pressure formulas B) Atmospheric radioactivity C) The particle idea alone D) The wave idea alone
A) Zeehame B) Vienna, Austria C) Alpbach, Austria D) Arosa, Switzerland
A) 73 B) 53 C) 63 D) 83
A) Franz Exner B) Victor Hess C) Fritz Kohlrausch D) The editors of the Handbook of Electricity and Magnetism
A) Brownian Motion B) Wave Mechanics C) Dielectrism D) Capillary Pressure
A) Velocity of coherent light B) Probable height distribution C) Wave-particle duality D) Capillary pressure in gas bubbles
A) 1912 B) 1920 C) 1914 D) 1913
A) Fritz Kohlrausch B) The Pope C) Franz Exner D) Victor Hess
A) Arosa Prize B) Haitinger Prize C) Pontifical Prize D) Nobel Prize
A) Victor Hess B) The University of Vienna rector C) Franz Exner D) Fritz Kohlrausch
A) 1919 B) 1956 C) 1912 D) 1913
A) Atmospheric radioactivity B) Capillary pressure C) Nuclear power D) Coherent light
A) Hydrodynamic flow considerations B) Relativistic considerations C) Newtonian gravity considerations D) Thermodynamic equilibrium considerations
A) Wolfgang Pauli B) Niels Bohr C) Max Planck D) Hermann Weyl
A) The Michelson-Morley experiment B) The Franck-Hertz experiment C) The Stern-Gerlach experiment D) The Bothe–Geiger coincidence experiment
A) He quickly abandoned it after 1922 B) It was a lifelong attraction for him C) He considered it a major mathematical error D) He only used it in his final academic paper
A) Nature B) Physical Review C) Annalen der Physik D) Proceedings of the Royal Society
A) Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem B) Grundzüge einer neuen Quantentheorie C) Über die Beziehung zwischen der Heisenbergschen Quantenmechanik und der meinigen D) Die gegenwärtige Situation in der Quantenmechanik
A) The Stark effect treatment B) Matrix element calculations C) Scattering problem solutions D) Correct energy eigenvalues
A) Water molecule B) Diatomic molecule C) Hydrogen molecule ion D) Polyatomic molecule
A) Spherical top B) Harmonic rotator C) Elastic rotor D) Rigid rotor
A) Werner Heisenberg B) Max Born C) Niels Bohr D) Albert Einstein
A) Photoelectric effect B) Zeeman effect C) Compton effect D) Stark effect
A) Eigenvalue problems B) Scattering problems C) Harmonic oscillations D) Matrix calculations
A) Four B) One C) Six D) Two
A) Double-slit experiment B) Schrödinger's cat C) Wigner's friend D) EPR paradox
A) Berlin physicists B) Copenhagen physicists C) Vienna physicists D) Göttingen physicists
A) Shitty matrix elements B) Scattering amplitudes C) Energy eigenvalues D) Time-dependent equations
A) Special relativity B) Newtonian mechanics C) General relativity D) Quantum electrodynamics
A) 1920s B) 1952 C) 1947 D) 1956
A) As mathematically flawless B) As revolutionary C) As preliminary D) As complete
A) Leuchtkraft B) Farbenmetrik C) Tagessehen D) Weltbild
A) David L. MacAdam B) Keith K. Niall C) Arthur Schopenhauer D) Albert Einstein
A) Spinoza's B) Schopenhauer's C) Einstein's D) Newton's
A) British empiricism B) Ancient Greek philosophy C) Indian philosophy D) German idealism
A) Sat cit ananda B) Aham Brahmasmi C) Tat tvam asi D) Om mani padme hum
A) 1952 B) 1920 C) 1956 D) 1947
A) Bas van Fraassen B) Arthur Schopenhauer C) Albert Einstein D) David L. MacAdam
A) Idealist monism B) Dualistic monism C) Materialist monism D) Post-Machian neutral monism
A) 3 October 1965 B) 1938 C) 6 April 1920 D) 3 December 1896
A) 1934 B) 3 October 1965 C) 3 December 1896 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) A divorced relationship B) A strictly monogamous relationship C) A long-distance relationship D) An open relationship
A) 1934 B) 1920 C) 1939 D) 1938
A) 1920 B) 1938 C) 1934 D) 1965
A) Physicist B) Colleague C) Prime Minister of the UK D) Taoiseach
A) October 1939 B) April 1920 C) December 1896 D) October 1965
A) 3 October 1965 B) October 1939 C) 6 April 1920 D) 3 December 1896 |