Statistics for Members of the 1927 Solvay Conference

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Nationality	Scientific Contribution	Nobel Prize?	Answer	% Correct
German	Special & General Relativity	1921 - Physics	Albert Einstein	100%
Polish-French	Pioneering research on Radioactivity, discovering 2 new elements	1903 - Physics 1911 - Chemistry	Marie Curie	100%
Danish	Developed the model of the atom with discrete electron energy levels	1922 - Physics	Niels Bohr	88%
Austrian	Formulised an equation to calculation the wave function and created a thought experiment with a cat	1933 - Physics	Erwin Schrodinger	75%
German	Came up with the uncertainty principle	1932 - Physics	Werner Heisenberg	50%
German	A very small constant in quantum mechanics is named after him	1918 - Physics	Max Planck	38%
Austrian	Came up with the exclusion principle	1945 - Physics	Wolfgang Pauli	38%
Dutch	Derived the transformation equations underpinning the theory of relativity	1902 - Physics	Hendrik Lorentz	25%
French	Hypothesised the wave nature of particles	1929 - Physics	Louis De Broglie	25%
English	Discovered the relativistic eqaution for the electron	1933 - Physics	Paul Dirac	25%
American	Named after an effect, which demonstrates the particle nature of electromagentic radiation	1927 - Physics	Arthur Compton	13%
Swiss	Inventor of the first bathyscraphe		Auguste Piccard	13%
Scottish	The Invention of the cloud chamber	1927 - Physics	Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	13%
Austrian-British	X-Ray Diffraction	1915 - Physics	Lawrence Bragg	13%
French	Came up with the Twin paradox (a thought expermient in special relativity)		Paul Langevin	13%
Belgian	The Father of Irreversible Thermodynamics		Theophile de Donder	13%
Swiss	Studiesd Optical Rotatory Dispersion		Charles Eugene Guye	0%
Belgian	Published 'The Reports of Energy and Mass After Ernest Solvay' in 1924		Edouard Herzen	0%
French	Showed Potassium and Rubidium are naturally radioactive		Emile Henriot	0%
Dutch	Introduced the concept of renormalisation into quantum field theory		Hendrik Anthony Kramers	0%
American	Inventor of the high-vacuum tube	1932 - Chemistry	Irving Langmuir	0%
Belgian	Worked at Kamerlingh Onne's laboratory in Leiden from 1894-1906		Jules-Emile Verschaffelt	0%
French	Studies the scattering of light with a frequency change		Leon Brillouin	0%
Danish	Studied molecular gas flow		Martin Knudsen	0%
German	Alongside another physicist formulated matrix mechanics into quantum mechanics	1954 - Physics	Max Born	0%
British	Thermionic Emission	1928 - Physics	Owen Willans Richardson	0%
Dutch	Contributions to statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics		Paul Ehrenfest	0%
Dutch-American	Application of Dipole moments to charges	1936 - Chemistry	Peter Debye	0%
English	Worked on statistical mechanics of white dwarf stars in 1926		Ralph H. Fowler	0%