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Field	Death	Discovery	Scientist	% Correct
Physics	1955	Relativity	Albert Einstein	94%
Astronomy	1642	Jupiter's moons	Galileo Galilei	93%
Physics, Mathematics	1727	Gravity, Calculus	Isaac Newton	90%
Physics	1934	Radium / polonium	Marie Curie	85%
Philosophy, Social Science	348 BC	Education, Political science	Plato	81%
Biology	1882	Evolution	Charles Darwin	80%
Astronomy	1543	Heliocentrism	Nicolas Copernicus	78%
Biology, Philosophy, Social science	322 BC	Biology, Logic, Political science	Aristotle	76%
Philosophy	399 BC	Philosophy	Socrates	76%
Astronomy	2018	Black hole radiation	Stephen Hawking	76%
Social Science	1939	Psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	74%
Miscellaneous	1896	Dynamite	Alfred Nobel	69%
Technology	1967	Nuclear weapons	J. Robert Oppenheimer	68%
Technology	1943	Alternating current	Nikola Tesla	68%
Technology	1912, 1948	Aviation	Wilbur and Orville Wright	68%
Miscellaneous	1790	Lightning rod	Benjamin Franklin	66%
Biology	1884	Genetics	Gregor Mendel	65%
Biology	1958	Structure of DNA	Rosalind Franklin	65%
Technology	1931	Direct current	Thomas Edison	65%
Medicine	1955	Penicillin	Alexander Fleming	62%
Medicine	1895	_____ization	Louis Pasteur	62%
Social Science	1790	Economics	Adam Smith	61%
Technology	1947	Assembly line	Henry Ford	61%
Mathematics, Physics	495 BC	Ratios, Acoustics	Pythagoras	61%
Mathematics	270 BC	Geometry	Euclid	55%
Biology	alive	Structure of DNA	James Watson	55%
Biology	2004	Structure of DNA	Francis Crick	54%
Technology	1819	Steam engine	James Watt	53%
Mathematics, Technology	212 BC	Pi, Simple Machines	Archimedes	51%
Chemistry	1907	Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev	49%
Chemistry	1962	Electron orbits	Niels Bohr	49%
Technology	1827	Electric battery	Alessandro Volta	47%
Astronomy	1630	Elliptical orbits	Johannes Kepler	45%
Technology	1954	Computer science	Alan Turing	44%
Medicine	370 BC	Medicine	Hippocrates	44%
Physics	1976	Uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	44%
Chemistry	1907	Absolute zero	Lord Kelvin	43%
Medicine	1995	Polio vaccine	Jonas Salk	41%
Philosophy, Mathematics	1650	Rationalism, Coordinates	Rene Descartes	41%
Social Science	1936	Classical conditioning	Ivan Pavlov	39%
Medicine	1823	Vaccines	Edward Jenner	37%
Chemistry	1937	Atomic nuclei	Ernest Rutherford	37%
Social Science	425 BC	History	Herodotus	33%
Social Science	1961	Analytical psychology	Carl Jung	30%
Miscellaneous	alive	Primate tool use	Jane Goodall	30%
Physics	1947	Quantum theory	Max Planck	30%
Philosophy	1778	Free speech	Voltaire	30%
Mathematics	1716	Calculus	Gottfried Leibniz	29%
Technology	1977	Rocket science	Wernher von Braun	29%
Astronomy	1953	Galaxies	Edwin Hubble	28%
Physics	1954	Nuclear energy	Enrico Fermi	28%
Philosophy	1626	Scientific method	Francis Bacon	28%
Mathematics	1783	Functions	Leonhard Euler	28%
Technology	1867	Electric motor	Michael Faraday	28%
Astronomy	170 AD	Geocentrism	Ptolemy	28%
Philosophy	1704	Liberalism	John Locke	27%
Social Science	1946	Macroeconomics	John Maynard Keynes	27%
Physics	1961	Wave mechanics	Erwin Schrödinger	25%
Social Science	alive	Modern linguistics	Noam Chomsky	25%
Mathematics	1662	Calculator	Blaise Pascal	24%
Biology	1778	Taxonomy	Carl Linnaeus	24%
Physics	1923	Ionizing radiation	Wilhelm Röntgen	24%
Mathematics	1852	Programming	Ada Lovelace	23%
Biology	alive	Genes / memes	Richard Dawkins	22%
Chemistry	1794	Oxygen	Antoine Lavoisier	20%
Mathematics	1855	Number theory	Carl Friedrich Gauss	20%
Miscellaneous	1997	SCUBA	Jacques Cousteau	20%
Chemistry	1691	Gas pressure	Robert Boyle	19%
Biology	1703	Cells	Robert Hooke	18%
Biology, Medicine	1723	Microbiology, Bacteria	Antonie von Leeuwenhoek	17%
Medicine	216 AD	Autopsy	Galen of Pergamun	17%
Medicine	1912	Sterilization	Joseph Lister	17%
Chemistry	1940	Electrons	JJ Thomson	16%
Chemistry	1844	Atomic theory	John Dalton	16%
Astronomy	1601	Stellar dynamics	Tycho Brahe	16%
Physics	1894	Radio waves	Heinrich Hertz	15%
Physics	1988	Particle physics	Richard Feynman	15%
Physics, Mathematics, Technology, Philosophy	1957	Quantum math, Game theory, Simulations, Non-determinism	John von Neumann	14%
Philosophy, Mathematics	545 BC	Naturalism, Proofs	Thales of Miletus	14%
Chemistry	370 BC	Atomism	Democritus	13%
Social Science	1990	Operant conditioning	B.F. Skinner	12%
Physics	1908	Radioactivity	Henri Becquerel	12%
Biology	1657	Circulation	William Harvey	12%
Medicine	1858	Epidemiology	John Snow	11%
Chemistry	1968	Nuclear fission	Lise Meitner	11%
Medicine	1910	Germ theory	Robert Koch	11%
Mathematics	262 BC	Infinity	Zeno of Alea	10%
Mathematics	290 AD	Algebra	Diophantus	9%
Astronomy	1822	Infrared radiation	William Herschel	9%
Biology	1564	Anatomy	Andreas Vesalius	8%
Mathematics	1665	Probability	Pierre de Fermat	8%
Mathematics	1920	Infinite series	Srinivasa Ramanujan	8%
Social Science	192 BC	Geography	Eratosthenes	7%
Mathematics	668 AD	Zero	Brahmagupta	5%
Medicine	1541	Toxicology	Paracelsus	5%
Miscellaneous	15 BC	Architecture	Vitruvius	5%
Miscellaneous	1832	Paleontology	Georges Cuvier	4%
Physics	1040	Optics	Ibn al-Haytham	4%
Biology	1894	Vision / hearing	Hermann von Helmholtz	3%
Medicine	1915	Chemotherapy	Paul Ehrlich	3%