Who was the Australian Nobel Laureate awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1960?
a) Barry Marshall
b) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Elizabeth Blackburn
d) Howard Florey
Answer:
Answer: b) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Which Australian scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1970 for his work on the scattering of light?
a) Brian Schmidt
b) Barry Marshall
c) John Eccles
d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin?
a) Peter Doherty
b) Howard Florey
c) Elizabeth Blackburn
d) William Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: b) Howard Florey
Which Australian was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005 for the discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease?
a) John Eccles
b) Elizabeth Blackburn
c) Barry Marshall
d) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: c) Barry Marshall
Who was the Australian laureate honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome?
a) Sir Lawrence Bragg
b) Peter Doherty
c) Elizabeth Blackburn
d) Ada Yonath
Answer:
Answer: d) Ada Yonath
Which Australian received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for X-ray crystallography?
a) Peter Doherty
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) William Lawrence Bragg
d) Howard Florey
Answer:
Answer: c) William Lawrence Bragg
The Australian Nobel Laureate who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2005 for discoveries concerning the specificity of the immune system and cell-mediated immunity is:
a) Sir Lawrence Bragg
b) Barry Marshall
c) Peter Doherty
d) Elizabeth Blackburn
Answer:
Answer: c) Peter Doherty
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2005 for the study of the molecular basis of telomeres, structures that protect the ends of chromosomes?
a) Barry Marshall
b) Ada Yonath
c) Elizabeth Blackburn
d) John Eccles
Answer:
Answer: c) Elizabeth Blackburn
Which Australian laureate received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for the discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system?
a) Barry Marshall
b) Howard Florey
c) Peter Doherty
d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: b) Sir Lawrence Bragg
The Australian Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the acceleration of the universe’s expansion was:
a) Brian Schmidt
b) John Eccles
c) William Lawrence Bragg
d) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: a) Brian Schmidt
Which Australian scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for the discovery of how the immune system recognizes virus-infected cells?
a) Elizabeth Blackburn
b) John Eccles
c) Barry Marshall
d) Peter Doherty
Answer:
Answer: d) Peter Doherty
The Australian laureate who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2015 for mechanistic studies of DNA repair is:
a) Ada Yonath
b) Elizabeth Blackburn
c) Barry Marshall
d) Tomas Lindahl
Answer:
Answer: d) Tomas Lindahl
Who among the following Australians was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for their discoveries concerning the ion channels in cells?
a) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
b) Sir Lawrence Bragg
c) John Eccles
d) Howard Florey
Answer:
Answer: c) John Eccles
Which Australian scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 for the discoveries concerning the generation of oxygen radicals in cells?
a) Barry Marshall
b) Peter Doherty
c) Howard Florey
d) Elizabeth Blackburn
Answer:
Answer: b) Peter Doherty
The Australian laureate awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays was:
a) William Lawrence Bragg
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Brian Schmidt
d) Ada Yonath
Answer:
Answer: a) William Lawrence Bragg
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for their discoveries in the interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis?
a) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
b) Elizabeth Blackburn
c) Barry Marshall
d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: a) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Australian laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003 for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes was:
a) Elizabeth Blackburn
b) Peter Doherty
c) Ada Yonath
d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: c) Ada Yonath
Which Australian scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005 for contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy?
a) Brian Schmidt
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) William Lawrence Bragg
d) John Eccles
Answer:
Answer: a) Brian Schmidt
The Australian laureate who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1915 for the physiology of digestion is:
a) Howard Florey
b) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Barry Marshall
d) Sir William Ramsay
Answer:
Answer: a) Howard Florey
Who among the following Australians was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1930 for the discovery of insulin?
a) Sir William Ramsay
b) Howard Florey
c) John Eccles
d) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: b) Howard Florey
Which Australian laureate won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962 for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy?
a) Elizabeth Blackburn
b) Ada Yonath
c) Sir Lawrence Bragg
d) Barry Marshall
Answer:
Answer: c) Sir Lawrence Bragg
The Australian Nobel Laureate honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for his research on the properties of the X-ray spectrum was:
a) Sir William Ramsay
b) William Lawrence Bragg
c) Peter Doherty
d) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: b) William Lawrence Bragg
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase?
a) Howard Florey
b) Elizabeth Blackburn
c) Barry Marshall
d) John Eccles
Answer:
Answer: b) Elizabeth Blackburn
The Australian laureate awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980 for his determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre was:
a) Barry Marshall
b) Sir William Ramsay
c) Howard Florey
d) Ada Yonath
Answer:
Answer: d) Ada Yonath
Which Australian scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of human papillomaviruses causing cervical cancer?
a) Elizabeth Blackburn
b) Peter Doherty
c) Barry Marshall
d) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: a) Elizabeth Blackburn
The Australian Nobel Laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the determination of the structure of crystals by means of X-rays was:
a) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
b) William Lawrence Bragg
c) Howard Florey
d) Sir William Ramsay
Answer:
Answer: b) William Lawrence Bragg
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies?
a) Sir Lawrence Bragg
b) Barry Marshall
c) Peter Doherty
d) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: d) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Australian laureate who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery of heavy hydrogen (deuterium) is:
a) Ada Yonath
b) Sir William Ramsay
c) Howard Florey
d) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Answer:
Answer: b) Sir William Ramsay
Which Australian scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1915 for the treatment of syphilis with Salvarsan?
a) Frank Macfarlane Burnet
b) Barry Marshall
c) Howard Florey
d) Sir William Ramsay
Answer:
Answer: d) Sir William Ramsay
The Australian laureate who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the development of the Wilson cloud chamber was:
a) William Lawrence Bragg
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Sir William Ramsay
d) Howard Florey
Answer:
Answer: c) Sir William Ramsay
Who among the following Australians received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1923 for the discovery of vitamin C?
a) Howard Florey
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Barry Marshall
d) Sir William Ramsay
Answer:
Answer: b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
The Australian Nobel Laureate honored with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945 for the discovery of the transuranium elements in the periodic table is:
a) Howard Florey
b) Sir William Ramsay
c) Sir Lawrence Bragg
d) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
Answer:
Answer: c) Sir Lawrence Bragg
Which Australian scientist received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for the determination of the charge of the electron by means of his oil-drop experiment?
a) William Lawrence Bragg
b) Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet
c) Sir William Ramsay
d) Howard Florey
Answer:
Answer: a) William Lawrence Bragg
