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