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Exploring the Role of Chemists in Film and Science

This quiz explores the roles of chemists in popular films and their contributions to the field of chemistry, testing knowledge on both cinematic and scientific aspects.

1 What role did Chemist play in the movie Ghar Jamai?

2 What role did Chemist play in the movie Sarala?

3 After ________ was discovered and became a precious metal, many people were interested to find a method that could convert other substances into gold.

4 Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, ________, size and shape.

5 Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component ________.

6 A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of ________.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • William Ashwell Shenstone, a published chemist, listed "experimental work" among his recreations in Who's Who.
  • Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was an English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of the Standard Oil companies.
  • Willis Adcock, a Canadian-American chemist, helped create the first atomic bomb, the silicon transistor, and the integrated circuit.
  • artist Émile Friant was intended to be a chemist until he gained his father's permission to leave the lycĂ©e.
  • the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today.
  • Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria.
  • Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch invented the safety match.
  • Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen.
  • chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier.
  • Estonian-Jewish chemist Moses Wolf Goldberg earned the Habilitation degree in 1935 despite increasing xenophobia at ETH Zurich.
  • German chemist Albert Niemann became the first person to isolate cocaine in 1859.
  • Australian author Duncan Ball worked as an industrial chemist and as an editor before he became a full-time author.