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