Statistics for Presidents of The Royal Society

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Hint	Years of presidency	Answer	% Correct
Physicist and mathematician, co-invented the calculus	1703–1727	Isaac Newton	100%
Architect of St. Paul's Cathedral	1680-1682	Christopher Wren	71%
Surgeon, pioneer of antiseptic surgery	1895-1900	Joseph Lister	57%
Physicist, discovered radioactive half-life	1925-1930	Ernest Rutherford	43%
Chemist, invented electrochemistry	1820-1827	Humphry Davy	43%
Botanist, took part in James Cook's first voyage	1778-1820	Joseph Banks	43%
Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses	1970-1975	Alan Lloyd Hodgkin	29%
Biophysicist, co-discovered the propagation of nerve impulses	1980-1985	Andrew Huxley	29%
Neurophysiologist, discovered the synaptic communication between neurons	1920-1925	Charles Scott Sherrington	29%
Physicist, discovered electron	1915-1920	Joseph John Thomson	29%
Physicist, developed operational research in WW2	1965-1970	Patrick Blackett	29%
Politician and administrator of the Royal Navy	1685-1686	Samuel Pepys	29%
Biologist, coined the word "agnostic"	1883-1885	Thomas Henry Huxley	29%
Chancellor of the Exchequer and poet	1695-1698	Charles Montagu	14%
Biochemist, co-discovered the vitamins	1930-1935	Frederick Gowland Hopkins	14%
Botanist, founded geographical botany	1873–1878	Joseph Dalton Hooker	14%
Mathematical physicist, formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics	1890-1895	Lord Kelvin	14%
Physicist, discovered surface waves and argon	1905-1908	Lord Rayleigh	14%
Mathematician, introduced topological K-theory	1990-1995	Michael Atiyah	14%
Physicist, introduced analysis of crystal structure by X-rays	1935-1940	William Henry Bragg	14%