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year of birth and death	major field	HINT	Name	% Correct
1642-1727	Physics	apple on head	Sir Isaac Newton	93%
1879-1955	Physics	relativity	Albert Einstein	92%
1452-1519	Polymath	mona lisa	Leonardo da Vinci	85%
1867-1934	Chemistry	Radiation	Marie Curie	83%
c. 427-347 B.C.	Philosophy	big three	Plato	81%
1847-1931	Inventor	light bulb	Thomas Alva Edison	81%
1809-1881	Biology	evolution	Charles Darwin	79%
1564-1642	Astronomy	stellar observations	Galileo Galilei	79%
c. 581-497 B.C.	Mathematics	a²+b²=c²	Pythagoras	78%
c. 384-322 B.C.	Philosophy	big three	Aristotle	77%
1473-1543	Astronomy	heliocentrism	Nicolaus Copernicus	75%
c. 287-212 B.C.	Inventor	EUREKA	Archimedes	74%
1942-	Physics	theory of everything	Stephen Hawking	68%
1822-1884	Biology	inheritance	Johann Gregor Mendel	67%
1856-1943	Inventor	# magnetism	Nikola Tesla	66%
1847-1922	Inventor	Call me maybe	Alexander Graham Bell	65%
c. 460-377 B.C.	Medicine	...'oath	Hippocrates of Cos	64%
c. 1870 - 1950	Inventor	flight	The Wright Brothers	64%
1881-1955	Medicine	penicillin	Alexander Fleming	63%
1833-1896	Inventor	dynamite	Alfred Nobel	63%
1856-1939	Philosophy	everything is sex	Sigmund Freud	63%
1706-1790	Polymath	lightning rod	Benjamin Franklin	62%
1920-1958	Chemistry	X-ray crystallography	Rosalind Franklin	62%
1822-1895	Microbiology	heat treatment of food	Louis Pasteur	61%
1736-1819	Inventor	better steam engine	James Watt	60%
1596-1650	Philosophy	i think, therefore I am	Rene Descartes	60%
1887-1961	Physics	...'s cat	Erwin Schrodinger	59%
1400-1468	Inventor	print	Johannes Gutenberg	59%
1656-1742	Astronomy	...'s comet	Edmund Halley	58%
1824-1907	Physics	Temperature	Lord Kelvin	58%
c. 330-260 B.C.	Mathematics	father of math	Euclid	56%
1791-1867	Physics	...'s cage	Michael Faraday	55%
1904-1967	Physics	nuke	Robert Oppenheimer	55%
1885-1962	Physics	atomic structure	Niels Bohr	54%
1745-1827	Chemistry	battery inventor	Count Alessandro Volta	52%
1928-	Biology	DNA	James Dewey Watson	51%
1571-1630	Astronomy	3 laws of ...	Johannes Kepler	50%
1847-1937	Inventor	Radio	Guglielmo Marconi	49%
1858-1947	Physics	...'s constant	Max Planck	49%
1889-1953	Astronomy	's telescope	Edwin Hubble	47%
1845-1923	Physics	X-ray	Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen	46%
1912-1954	Computer science	father of AI	Alan Turing	45%
1834-1907	Chemistry	classification of elements	Dmitri Mendeleev	45%
1901-1954	Physics	...'s uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	44%
1871-1937	Chemistry	Nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	42%
1623-1662	Mathematics	fluid mechanics, #pressure	Blaise Pascal	39%
1755-1836	Physics	electric current	Andre-Marie Ampere	37%
1686-1736	Physics	Temperature	Daniel Fahrenheit	37%
1901-1954	Physics	radioactivity	Enrico Fermi	36%
1914-1995	Medicine	polio	Jonas Salk	36%
1776-1856	Chemistry	atoms in a mole	Amedo Avogadro	33%
1743-1794	Chemistry	metric system	Antoine Lavoisier	33%
1749-1823	Medicine	vacine	Edward Jenner	32%
1831-1879	Physics	unification of electromagnetic laws	James Clerk Maxwell	32%
1561-1626	Philosophy	scientific method	Francis Bacon	31%
1791-1871	Polymath	father of computer	Charles Babbage	30%
1627-1691	Chemistry	P*V = constant	Robert Boyle	30%
1818-1920	Physics	# energy	James Joule	27%
1955-	Computer science	www	Tim Berners-Lee	27%
90-168 A.D.	Polymath	Egyptian genius	Ptolemy	25%
1766-1844	Physics	colour blindness	John Dalton	24%
1635-1703	Polymath	F = k X (springs)	Robert Hooke	24%
1740-1810	Inventor	hot air balloon	Joseph Montgolfier	23%
1632-1723	Microbiology	microscope	Anton van Leeuwenhoek	20%
1578-1657	Medicine	blood circulation	William Harvey	20%
130-201 A.D.	Medicine	father of physiology	Galen of Pergamum	18%
1736-1806	Physics	# electricity	Charles de Coulomb	17%
1856-1940	Physics	electron	Sir John Joseph Thomson	16%
1857-1894	Physics	Electro-magnetic waves	Heinrich Rudolf Hertz	14%
1834-1900	Inventor	combustion engine in cars	Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler	14%
1852-1908	Physics	# radiation	Antoine-Henri Becquerel	13%
c. 460-370 B.C.	Philosophy	father of modern science	Democritus of Abdera	13%
1901-1994	Chemistry	quantum chemistry	Linus Carl Pauling	13%
1629-1695	Mathematics	game of chance	Christiann Huygens	11%
1908-	Physics	hydrogen bomb	Edward Teller	11%
1778-1850	Chemistry	Gas laws	Joseph Gay-Lussac	11%
1733-1804	Chemistry	oxygen	Joseph Priestley	11%
1882-1945	Inventor	Rocketry	Robert Goddard	11%
1891-1974	Physics	neutron	Sir James Chadwick	11%
1514-1564	Medicine	anatomy founder	Andreas Vesalius	10%
1892-1987	Physics	wave-particle duality	Louis de Broglie	10%
c. 611-547 B.C.	Philosophy	School of Milete	Anaximander	9%
1731-1810	Chemistry	density of earth	Henry Cavendish	8%
1907-1996	Inventor	jet engine	Sir Frank Whittle	8%
1663-1729	Inventor	steam engine	Thomas Newcomen	8%
800-850	Mathematics	numbers, 0	Al-Khwarizmi	7%
1891-1941	Medicine	insulin	Frederick Banting	7%
c. 170-125 B.C.	Astronomy	precession of equinoxes	Hipparchus	5%
1728-1799	Chemistry	latent heat	Joseph Black	5%
1540-1603	Physics	father of electromagnetism	William Gilbert	5%
1910-1989	Physics	transistor	William Shockley	5%
1877-1956	Chemistry	isotopes	Frederick Soddy	4%
1887-1915	Physics	atomic number	Henry Moseley	4%
1742-1786	Chemistry	organic acids, O, W ,H , Ba, Cl, Mo	Karl Wilhelm Scheele	4%
1863-1944	Chemistry	Hard plastics	Leo Baekeland	4%
1866-1945	Biology	chromosomes	Thomas Hunt Morgan	4%
78-139 A.D.	Polymath	Chinese genius	Zhang Heng	4%
1822-1900	Inventor	combustion engine	Jean-Joseph Lenoir	3%
1579-1644	Chemistry	pneumatic chemistry	Johann van Helmont	3%
1854-1915	Microbiology	Gram staining	Paul Ehrlich	3%