Statistics for Elements named after people

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
German-born theoretical physicist; developed the theory of relativity	Einsteinium	96%
French/Polish couple of physicist; pioneers of research on radioactivity	Curium	90%
Russian chemist and inventor; created the periodic table of elements	Mendelevium	80%
Inventor of dynamite; posthumously established a scientific award	Nobelium	76%
Danish physicist; made contributions to atomic structure and quantum mechanics	Bohrium	69%
New Zealand-British chemist and physicist; considered as the father of nuclear physics	Rutherfordium	69%
Renaissance astronomer; formulated a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology	Copernicium	68%
Italian-born physicist; known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor	Fermium	59%
German physicist; discovered X-rays	Roentgenium	57%
American physicist, known for the invention of the cyclotron atom-smasher	Lawrencium	52%
American scientist; contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten new elements	Seaborgium	49%
Austrian-born physicist; part of the team that discovered nuclear fission	Meitnerium	39%
Soviet physicist and founder of a Russian research institute	Flerovium	26%
Finnish chemist; physicist and mineralogist; founder of Finnish chemistry research	Gadolinium	19%

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