The European Space Agency has announced the world’s first parastronaut — Britain’s John McFall. This week’s quiz is about scientists who overcame a disability to achieve.
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on scientists who overcame disabilities
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Joseph Priestly, who discovered oxygen, had…
- Autism
- Dyslexia
- Hearing disability
- Speech disability
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He shared the Nobel Prize for discovering a crucial bodily process that helps govern the movement of muscles, the shape and division of cells, and even learning and memory. But he was the last one to hear the news as he was hearing-impaired. Name him.
- Hans Krebs
- Edwin Krebs
- John Krebs
- Edmond Krebs
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John Warcup Cornforth was awarded the 1975 Nobel in Chemistry for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. He was/had…
- Blind
- Learning disability
- Deaf
- Dyslexic
Sir John Cornforth’s life and career were shaped by a hearing disorder that left him profoundly deaf by the age of 20.
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We have all been told Thomas Edison had a learning and hearing disability. The question is how many patents did Edison have?
- More than 1000
- More than 2000
- More than 3000
- More than 4000
5 / 5 |
Florence Seibert, who invented the first reliable TB test, was…
- Blind
- Deaf
- A Polio survivor
- Dyslexic
