Nationality | Birth Year | Invention, Discovery or Achievement | Answer | % Correct |
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German-American | 1879 | Generated the famous equation E= mc^2 to describe the speed of light, and is considered the father of modern physics. He also produced the General Theory of Relativity. | Albert Einstein | 100%
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British | 1643 | Developed the Laws of Motion, Gravity, and Differential and Integral Calculus. | Sir Isaac Newton | 100%
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Polish-French | 1867 | Discovered radioactivity, polonium, radium, and was the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in separate categories of science. | Marie Curie | 94%
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Serbian-American | 1856 | Known for the Alternating Current (AC) and his many inventions including his coil. The SI unit of magnetic flux density is named after him. | Nikola Tesla | 94%
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Italian | 1564 | Improved the telescope, proved that not all objects orbited Earth, discovered sunspots, and invented the pendulum and the first thermometer. | Galileo Galilei | 88%
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Polish | 1473 | First person to formulate a heliocentric model of the universe and often regarded as the person who started the scientific revolution. | Nicolaus Copernicus | 88%
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British | 1809 | Contemporaneously developed the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection with Alfred Russell Wallace. | Charles Darwin | 81%
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Greek | c. 287 BCE | Mathematician who came up with many inventions, including the siege engine and the screw pump. He discovered buoyancy, and proved that the sphere had two-thirds the volume and the surface area of a cylinder. | Archimedes | 75%
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Austrian-Czech | 1822 | A monk, he was the founder of genetics, and tested his theory on pea plants. | Gregor Mendel | 75%
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Italian | 1452 | A mathematician, inventor, engineer, anatomist, painter and much more. He conceptualized tanks and helicopters. | Leonardo Da Vinci | 75%
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British | 1942 | Known for gravitational singularity theorems, the prediction that black holes should emit radiation and for having motor neuron disease. | Stephen Hawking | 75%
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German | 1571 | Extensively studied the motion of planets and their elliptical orbits around the sun, and created his namesake laws of planetary motion. | Johannes Kepler | 69%
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Danish | 1885 | Was one of the founders of quantum mechanics alongside Werner Heisenberg, and advanced our understanding of atomic structure. Has an element named after him. | Niels Bohr | 69%
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Italian | 1745 | Discoverer of the battery and methane, with the SI unit of electric potential named after him. | Alessandro Volta | 63%
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Scottish | 1881 | Discoverer of the first antibiotic, penicillin. | Alexander Fleming | 63%
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Greek | c. 460 BCE | Referred to as the "Father of Medicine" best known today for his namesake oath that binds physicians to "first do no harm". | Hippocrates | 63%
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British | 1824 | Developed the first and second laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero, and has a temperature scale named after him. | Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) | 63%
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British | 1791 | He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Also discovered that magnetism could affect rays of light. | Michael Faraday | 63%
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New Zealander | 1871 | Discovered the half-life in radioactivity, the proton, and was the first person to split an atom. He has an element named after him. | Ernest Rutherford | 56%
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French | 1822 | Created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax and created a way to sterilize milk and wine. | Louis Pasteur | 56%
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German | 1858 | His constant yields the energy of a photon when multiplied by its frequency. Discovered energy quanta and laid the foundation for theoretical physics. | Max Planck | 56%
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Greek | c. 384 BCE | Although many of his theories (including the five senses, five elements, geocentrism, and theories of motion) were later disproven, his ideas were massively influential in the Middle Ages and beyond. Better known for his philosophy, he also had persisting scientific contributions, such as the establishment of meteorology. | Aristotle | 50%
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British | 1920 | X-ray crystallographer whose foundational contribution to discovering the structure of DNA was often overlooked in favor of Francis Crick & James Watson. | Rosalind Franklin | 50%
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German-American | 1912 | Lead designer of the V-2 rocket, the first artificial object launched into space. Worked for Nazi Germany, and then was poached by the U.S after the war ended. | Wernher von Braun | 50%
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German | 1845 | Discovered X-rays and has a unit of measurement and element named after him. | Wilhelm Röntgen | 50%
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French | 1623 | Clarified the concepts of pressure, made contributions to the study of fluids and invented the calculator. He was a child prodigy and has an SI unit named after him. | Blaise Pascal | 44%
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British | 1749 | Created the first vaccine (which was against smallpox). | Edward Jenner | 44%
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Italian-American | 1901 | One of the creators of the atomic bomb, creator of the nuclear reactor, and discoverer of the neutrino and weak interaction. An element, particle, institute, telescope, paradox, and accelerator lab is named after him. | Enrico Fermi | 44%
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Swedish | 1707 | The father of modern taxonomy (binomial nomenclature) and ecology. | Carolus Linnaeus | 38%
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German | 1646 | He developed calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and made contributions in almost every academic field–scientific and not. | Goffried von Leibniz | 38%
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British | 1934 | First observed many "human" behaviors in animals in the Gombe chimpanzees. Dubbed part of the "Trimates" by Louis Leakey, alongside Diane Fossey and Birutė Galdikas. | Jane Goodall | 38%
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Scottish | 1831 | Formulated the electromagnetic theory, and laid the foundations for special relativity and quantum mechanics. | James Clerk Maxwell | 25%
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American | 1918 | Assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, conceptualized nanotechnology, and theorized quantum electrodynamics. | Richard Feynman | 25%
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French | 1743 | Named oxygen and hydrogen and established that sulfur was an element. He also discovered the law of conservation of mass. | Antoine Lavoisier | 19%
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British | 1791 | First conceptualized the computer. | Charles Babbage | 19%
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British | 1778 | Discovered sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron and barium. He also clarified that iodine and chlorine were elements. | Humphry Davy | 19%
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Scottish | 1726 | Considered the father of modern geology, he disproved the young earth theory and postulated the universality of scientific principles across space and time. | James Hutton | 19%
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American | 1901 | One of the founders of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. He won two Nobel Prizes, one in Peace and one in Chemistry. | Linus Pauling | 19%
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German | 1880 | Developed the first comprehensive theory of continental drift, which was only later confirmed to be caused by plate tectonics. | Alfred Wegener | 13%
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Dutch | 1632 | He was the first person to observe and document single celled organisms. | Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek | 13%
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Greek | c. 194 BCE | First person to use the word "geography". He was also the first person to calculate the circumference of earth and the tilt of its axis. | Eratosthenes | 13%
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German | 1834 | Originated many terms in evolutionary biology, such as phylogeny and phylum, and theorized that ontogeny (the development of the fetus) tracks a species' evolutionary history. He was also a eugenicist and promoter of scientific racism. | Ernst Haeckel | 13%
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Belgian | 1894 | Priest and physicist who theorized the "Big Bang" and an expanding universe. | Georges Lemaître | 13%
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British | 1731 | Discovered Hydrogen, the composition of atmospheric air, and calculated the density and mass of the Earth. | Henry Cavendish | 13%
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Iraqi | c. 965 | First theorized that vision originates in the brain, known as the founder of optics and by some as the first scientist for his pioneering pursuit of the scientific method | Ibn al-Haytham | 13%
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French | 1744 | Made the first truly cohesive theory of evolution. Was the first to coin the terms invertebrates, and biology in the modern sense. In malacology he was a taxonomist of great stature. | Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck | 13%
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British | 1856 | Discoverer of the electron and isotopes, and invented the mass spectrometer. | J. J. Thomson | 13%
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Austrian | 1903 | One of the principal founders of ethology, the study of animal behavior, especially instinct and imprinting. Controversial for his work for Nazi Germany. | Konrad Lorenz | 13%
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Austrian | 1844 | Discovered Entropy (S= K*log W) and died by suicide while on vacation. | Ludwig Boltzmann | 13%
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American | 1911 | Discovered resonance states, proved the beta decay theory, worked under Oppenheimer for the Manhattan Project, and was the first to theorize that an asteroid had caused the extinction of dinosaurs. | Luis Alvarez | 13%
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Serbian | 1879 | Calculated the climates for all planets in the solar system but most famous for his namesake cycles that explain long-term variations in Earth's climate and contribute to ice ages and warm periods. | Milutin Milanković | 13%
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British | 1635 | First coined the word "cell", developed the concept of extinction and contributed to theories of gravity and geological origins of topography. Claimed that his theory of gravity was stolen. | Robert Hooke | 13%
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Iraqi | c. 780 | Considered the founder of modern algebra. | Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi | 6%
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