Otto Wichterle was best known for his invention of modern soft __________.
Gas cylinder
Digital clock
Contact lenses
Wichterle studied at the Chemical and Technological Faculty of the ___________ University.
Czech Technical
Oxford
Cambridge Technology
Wichterle's team made the first Czechoslovak synthetic fiber called _________.
Silk
Silon
Fabric
After World War II Wichterle returned to the university, specializing in __________.
Organic chemistry
Physics
Psychology study
Otto Wichterle's aim was to look after his father's work but his father forced him to take organic chemistry.
True
False
The asteroid number _________ was named after Wichterle in 1993.
3899
3000
5689
A high school in Ostrava was named after Otto Wichterle on September 1, 2006.
True
False
In which year he was made president of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences?
1888
1890
1990
Wichterle built several new prototype machines using Merkur toys with increasing numbers of spindles which required the stronger motor taken from his telephone.
True
False
Wichterle and NPDC won the court case of American rights to produce the lenses in which year?
1983
1990
1902
On 27 October 2021, Google celebrated Wichterle's _________ birth anniversary with a doodle on its homepage.
100th
150th
108th
Wichterle was imprisoned by the _________ in 1942.
Gestapo
Peaky Blinder
Squidders
Wichterle's father Karel was co-owner of a successful _________ factory.
Ice manufacturing
Farm-machine
Food production
Does Otto Wichterle died of lung cancer at the age of 31.
Yes
No
Otto Wichterle died at the age of _________.
56
72
84
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