Statistics for Scientists by Achievement

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Achievement	Scientist	% Correct
Constructed the first mathematical theory of gravity	Isaac Newton	93%
Invented the periodic table	Dmitri Mendeleev	87%
Development of the theory of relativity from which the famous mass-energy equivalence formula arises	Albert Einstein	80%
Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of radium and polonium	Marie Curie / Pierre Curie	77%
Known for discovering the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation	Louis Pasteur	73%
Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming	70%
Italian astronomer who telescopically confirmed the phases of Venus	Galileo Galilei	70%
The number of atoms in a mole is named after this chemist	Amadeo Avogadro	67%
Determined the 'absolute zero' of temperature	Lord Kelvin	67%
Codebreaker who invented the first computer	Alan Turing	63%
Wrote a famous set of four equations describing electromagnetism	James Clerk Maxwell	53%
Discovered electromagnetic induction	Michael Faraday	53%
Resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe by considering quanta of electromagnetic radiation	Max Planck	50%
Formulated the most famous wave equation in quantum mechanics (1926)	Erwin Schrödinger	47%
Discovered X-rays	Wilhelm Roentgen	47%
Discovered the vaccination for smallpox	Edward Jenner	43%
Invented the 'plum pudding' model of the atom	J.J. Thomson	43%
Discovered the neutron	James Chadwick	40%
Nobel laureate who invented a process to synthesise ammonia	Fritz Haber / Carl Bosch	23%
Introduced the concept of particle wavelength	Louis de Broglie	20%
Discovered insulin	Frederick Banting	17%
Discovered infrared radiation and the planet Uranus	William Herschel	10%
Discovered the process of photosynthesis	Jan Ingenhousz	3%
Played the leading role in the development of density functional theory	Walter Kohn	3%
Optical physicist who developed chirped pulse amplification	Donna Strickland / Gerard Mourou	0%