Statistics for Scientists by Achievement #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Serbian-American inventor who developed an AC induction motor	Nikola Tesla	90%
Invented the lightbulb, famous rival of the answer to question 1	Thomas Edison	76%
Discovered that wires carrying electric current can attract and repel magnetically; the SI unit of electrical current is named after him	André-Marie Ampère	67%
His work on pea plants led him to coin the terms 'dominant' and 'recessive' traits	Gregor Mendel	67%
Polymath who invented the telegraph and Morse code	Samuel Morse	67%
Founder of quantum mechanics who introduced quantisation of angular momentum	Niels Bohr	62%
First proposed a model of the atom like a 'solar system' where tiny electrons orbit a positive nucleus	Ernest Rutherford	57%
The unit of frequency is named after this physicist who proved the existence of EM waves	Heinrich Hertz	57%
Famous for his three laws of planetary motion	Johannes Kepler	57%
Developed the world's first nuclear reactor; particles with half-integer spin are named after him	Enrico Fermi	52%
Cambridge researchers who suggested the double-helix structure of DNA	James Watson / Francis Crick	52%
Chemist most noted for his discovery of the role played by oxygen in combustion	Antoine Lavoisier	48%
The SI unit of radioactivity is named after this scientist	Henri Becquerel	43%
Discovered the first of the gas laws, relating a gas's pressure to its volume	Robert Boyle	43%
The first computer programmer; collaborated with Charles Babbage	Ada Lovelace	38%
Credited with the discovery of atoms	John Dalton	38%
Discovered the density of DNA and established its helical form of the molecule	Rosalind Franklin	38%
Discovered hydrogen	Henry Cavendish	33%
His law states that the tension in a spring is directly proportional to the length it is stretched to	Robert Hooke	29%
Best known for his inverse-square law of electrostatic attraction and repulsion	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	24%
Discovered the positron	Carl Anderson	14%
The constant named after this physicist is equal to 1.38 x 10⁻²³ J/K	Ludwig Boltzmann	14%
Discovered pulsars	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	10%
Discovered the element protactinium and nuclear fission	Lise Meitner	10%
German crystallographer and pioneer in XRD after whom a sphere in reciprocal space is named	Paul Peter Ewald	10%