Cross Word Puzzles Competition

1) One of the greatest mathematicians of India who had profoundly contributed to the
theory of numbers.
 Srinivasa Ramanujam (1887-1920)
2) Who was the Swedish chemist who discovered dynamite at the age of 33?
 Alfred Noble (1833-1896)
3) The great inventor scientist who invented the electric bulb at the age of 32?
 Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
4) The French chemist and micro-biologist who gave us the valuable technique of
pasteurization at the age of 35.
 Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
5) The mathematician who gave the ever first proof of the general binominal theorem.
 Neils Henrik Abel (1802-1829)
6) This great nuclear physicist established the new branch of physics called
radioactivity at the age of 31.
 Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
7) Who was the great English physicist who discovered the hydrocarbon benzene at
the age of 34?
 Michael Faraday (1791-1867)
8) The greatest mathematician of the 18th century who constructed the calculus of
variation at the age of 19.
 Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736-1813)
9) The famous Canadian physician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for
the discovery of insulin at the age of 32.
 Fredric Grant Banting (1891-1941)
10) Who was the English astronomer who first published the meteorological chart used
in navigation at the age of 30?
 Edmond Halley (1656-1742)
11) Name the American Biologist who was awarded Nobel Prize for his research on
Molecular Structure of DNA at the age of 34.
 James Dewey Watson (1928- )
12) This German physicist who discovered Quantum theory at the age of 31.
 Max Planck (1858- 1947)
13) One of the most remarkable scientists of India who first enunciated the cascade
theory of showers at the age of 31.
 Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909-1966)
14) The Indian mathematician who proposed the very brilliant paper on “Max Planck’s
Law” and “Light Quantum Hypothesis” at the age of 30.
 Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974)
15) The subatomic particles of matter which have half integer spin called “Fermions”
are named after him for his discovery at the age of 26.
 Enrico Fermi (1901-1954)
16) Who was one of the greatest scientists who developed the Bohr Theory at the age of
31?
 Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
17) Who was the youngest scientist to get the Nobel Prize in Physics for his research in
X-ray diffraction at the age of 15?
 William Lawrence Bragg (1890-1971)
18) Name the British Chemist who discovered the hydrogen gas and called it
“Inflammable Air” at the age of 35.
 Henry Cavendish (1731-1810)
19) Which renowned Italian inventor and physicist transmitted the first wireless
message at the age of 27?
 Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)
20) Which great mathematician discovered that sunlight is a composition of 7 colors
VIBGYOR at the age of 23?
 Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
21) Who was the Indian scientist who founded the Indian Botanical Society at the age of
33?
 Birbal Shani (1891-1949)
22) Who was the American astronomer who discovered the Cepheid variable stars in
the Andromeda Galaxy at the age of 34?
 Edwin Powell Hubble (1899-1953)
23) Fascinated by the idea of flying in the sky, he along with his brother invented the
first flying machine at the age of 32, who is he?
 Orville Wright (1871-1948)
24) The scientist who discovered that earth’s crust consists of many plates at the age of
35.
 Alfred Lothar Wegener (1880-1930)