Scientists by Achievement #2

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Last updated: September 2, 2021

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Serbian-American inventor who developed an AC induction motor	Nikola Tesla
Discovered the element protactinium and nuclear fission	Lise Meitner
His work on pea plants led him to coin the terms 'dominant' and 'recessive' traits	Gregor Mendel
Chemist most noted for his discovery of the role played by oxygen in combustion	Antoine Lavoisier
Credited with the discovery of atoms	John Dalton
Discovered pulsars	Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The constant named after this physicist is equal to 1.38 x 10⁻²³ J/K	Ludwig Boltzmann
Discovered the density of DNA and established its helical form of the molecule	Rosalind Franklin
Cambridge researchers who suggested the double-helix structure of DNA	James Watson / Francis Crick
The unit of frequency is named after this physicist who proved the existence of EM waves	Heinrich Hertz
German crystallographer and pioneer in XRD after whom a sphere in reciprocal space is named	Paul Peter Ewald
Discovered the positron	Carl Anderson
Invented the lightbulb, famous rival of the answer to question 1	Thomas Edison
First proposed a model of the atom like a 'solar system' where tiny electrons orbit a positive nucleus	Ernest Rutherford
Best known for his inverse-square law of electrostatic attraction and repulsion	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
The SI unit of radioactivity is named after this scientist	Henri Becquerel
Developed the world's first nuclear reactor; particles with half-integer spin are named after him	Enrico Fermi
The first computer programmer; collaborated with Charles Babbage	Ada Lovelace
Discovered the first of the gas laws, relating a gas's pressure to its volume	Robert Boyle
Famous for his three laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler
Polymath who invented the telegraph and Morse code	Samuel Morse
Founder of quantum mechanics who introduced quantisation of angular momentum	Niels Bohr
His law states that the tension in a spring is directly proportional to the length it is stretched to	Robert Hooke
Discovered that wires carrying electric current can attract and repel magnetically; the SI unit of electrical current is named after him	André-Marie Ampère
Discovered hydrogen	Henry Cavendish

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