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Birthplace
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Invention, Discovery or Achievement
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Answer
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Woolsthrope-by-Colsterworth, England
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Laws of Motion, Gravity, and Differential and Integral Calculus.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Clarified the concepts of pressure, made contributions to the study of fluids and invented the calculator. He was a child prodigy and has an SI unit named after him.
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Blaise Pascal
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Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Austrian Empire
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A monk, he was the founder of genetics, he tested his theory on pea plants.
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Gregor Mendel
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Dole, Jura, France
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Created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax and created a way to sterilize milk and wine.
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Louis Pasteur
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Rome, Italy
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One of the creators of the atomic bomb, contributed to the quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics. An element is named after him.
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Enrico Fermi
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Shrewsbury, UK
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Proposed the Theory of Evolution, worked on the origin of man, studied earthworms, atolls, and much more.
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Charles Darwin
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Marshfield, Missouri, USA
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Often gets the credit for discovering the red shift, and that objects in space are spreading out.
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Edwin Hubble
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Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland
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Discovered penicillin.
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Alexander Fleming
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New York City, New York, USA
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Discovered and developed the polio vaccine.
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Jonas Salk
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Paris, France
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Named oxygen and hydrogen and established that sulfur was an element. He also discovered the law of conservation of mass.
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Råshult, Sweden
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The father of modern taxonomy (binomial nomenclature) and ecology.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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Penzance, Cornwall, UK
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Discovered sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron and barium. He also clarified that iodine and chlorine were elements.
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Humphry Davy
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick.
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James Watson
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Leipzig, Germany
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He developed infintesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton.
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Goffried von Leibniz
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Warsaw, Poland
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Discovered radioactivity, polonium, radium, and was the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in seperate categories of science.
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Marie Curie
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Pisa, Florence, Italy
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Improved the telescope, proved that not all objects orbited Earth, discovered sunspots, and invented the pendulum and the first thermometer.
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Galileo Galilei
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Delft, Netherlands
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He was the first person to observe and document single celled organisms.
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Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek
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Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Extensively studied the motion of planets and their elliptical orbit around the sun.
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Johannes Kepler
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Toruń, Poland
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First person to formulate a heliocentric model of the universe and often regarded as the person who started the scientific revolution.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Brightwater, New Zealand
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Discovered the half-life in radioactivity, the proton, and was the first person to split an atom. He has an element named after him.
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Ernest Rutherford
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Ulm, Germany
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Generated the famous equation E= mc^2, and is considered the father of modern physics. He also made the general theory of relativity.
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Albert Einstein
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Was one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and contributed a lot to the understanding of atomic structure.
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Niels Bohr
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Vinci, Florence
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Probably one of the most diversely talented people to ever live, he was a mathematician, inventor, engineer, anatomist, painter and much more. He conceptualised tanks and helicopters.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Portland, Oregon
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One of the founders of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. He won two nobel prizes, one in peace and one in physics.
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Linus Pauling
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Syracuse, Sicily
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A Greek mathematician who designed the siege engine and the screw pump. He discovered buoyancy, and proved that the sphere had two-thirds the volume and the surface area of a cylinder.
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Archimedes
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Oxford, UK
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Known for gravitational singularity theorems, the prediction that black holes should emit radiation and for having motor neuron disease.
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Stephen Hawking
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New York City, New York, USA
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Assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, created nanotechnology, and increased our understanding of quantum electrodynamics.
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Richard Feynman
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Vienna, Austria
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Discovered Entropy (S= K*log W) and committed suicide.
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Ludwig Boltzmann
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Kabete, Kenya
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An archaeologist and naturalist whose work supported Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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Louis Leakey
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Kiel, Germany
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Won the nobel prize for creating the quantum theory.
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Max Planck
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Belfast, Ireland
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Developed the first and second laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero, has a temperature scale named after him.
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Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)
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Lancaster, UK
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First conceived the term Dinosauria, strongly and publicly disagreed with Darwin's theory, and was one of the driving forces in the British Museum of Natural History.
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Richard Owen
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Freshwater, UK
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First coined the word Cell. Claimed that Isaac Newton stole his ideas.
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Robert Hooke
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Manchester, UK
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Discovery of the electron, isotopes, and invented the mass spectrometer.
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J. J. Thomson
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Bazentin, France
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Made the first truly cohesive theory of evolution. Was the first to coin the terms invertebrates, and biology in the modern sense. In malacology he was a taxonomist of great stature.
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Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck
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Cyrene, Libya
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First person to use the word "Geography". He was also the first person to calculate the circumference of earth and the tilt of its axis.
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Eratosthenes
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Newington Butts, UK
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He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Also discovered that magnetism could affect rays of light.
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Michael Faraday
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Berkeley, UK
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Pioneered the smallpox vaccine.
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Edward Jenner
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Edinburgh, Scotland
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Fomulated the electromagnetic theory, and laid the foundations for special relativity and quantum mechanics.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Lennep, Germany
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Discovered x-rays and has an element named after him.
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Wilhelm Röntgen
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But seeing your comment here basicly saying the same thing, quite a big chance it is indeed wrong in the quiz
The structure of the DNA was actually discovered by Rosalind Franklin. Her discovery was stolen by Watson and Crick, during a scientific conference, and the two men are still widely credited for it, even though her contributions were recognized after her death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin