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The document lists 24 scientists and their notable achievements or discoveries made at relatively young ages, some as young as 15 years old. It includes scientists such as Srinivasa Ramanujan, who profoundly contributed to number theory; Alfred Nobel, who discovered dynamite at age 33; and Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb at age 32. Overall, the document highlights many influential scientists from various fields and the impactful work they accomplished at early stages in their careers.

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The document lists 24 scientists and their notable achievements or discoveries made at relatively young ages, some as young as 15 years old. It includes scientists such as Srinivasa Ramanujan, who profoundly contributed to number theory; Alfred Nobel, who discovered dynamite at age 33; and Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb at age 32. Overall, the document highlights many influential scientists from various fields and the impactful work they accomplished at early stages in their careers.

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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)

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