It was the British scientist _______who discovered in 1666 that light consists of seven colours. Fill in the blank.
Correct answer is (a) Sir Issac Newton.
In 1666, during one of his optical experiments, Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a glass prism. The glass prism split the light into a band of seven colours on his wall. This phenomena is known as dispersion of light
He called this band of colours the ‘spectrum’. Thus the spectrum is a band of seven colours which is obtained by splitting of white light by a glass prism.