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Science and Inventions

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Which scientist's work on its orbit and prediction of its return in 1758 gave his name to a famous comet?
Which British chemist created Parkesine, the first man-made plastic?
Which British inventor created the cat's eye road reflector in 1934?
Which chemical did Joseph Lister introduce as a steriliser at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary?
Which British-born physicist, born in Cambridge in 1942, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in macroscopic quantum phenomena using the Josephson effect?
Which English engineer is credited with co-creating the turbojet engine, taking out a patent on his design in 1930?
Which New Zealand-born physicist working at Manchester split the atom in 1917 and is called the father of nuclear physics?
Who drove the first train hauled by Locomotion No. 1 on the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825?
Which English theoretical physicist wrote A Brief History of Time and died in 2018?
Which British-Canadian computer scientist was jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Hopfield?
Which British physicist showed in 1897 that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles, later called electrons?
Which Scottish-born inventor developed the first successful practical telephone patented in 1876?
Which technology did Tim Berners-Lee propose in 1989 at CERN?
Which British-born scientist led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep, born in 1996?
Which London-born scientist was jointly awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AI contributions to protein structure prediction?
Which Cambridge scientist team announced the structure of DNA in Nature in April 1953?
Which English engineer, best known for inventing one of the first powered vacuum cleaners, received his first patents in 1901?
Who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles?

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