Statistics for 40 of the Most Important Scientists

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Birthplace	Invention, Discovery or Achievement	Answer	% Correct
Woolsthrope-by-Colsterworth, England	Laws of Motion, Gravity, and Differential and Integral Calculus.	Sir Isaac Newton	99%
Ulm, Germany	Generated the famous equation E= mc^2, and is considered the father of modern physics. He also made the general theory of relativity.	Albert Einstein	93%
Shrewsbury, UK	Proposed the Theory of Evolution, worked on the origin of man, studied earthworms, atolls, and much more.	Charles Darwin	92%
Warsaw, Poland	Discovered radioactivity, polonium, radium, and was the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in seperate categories of science.	Marie Curie	86%
Pisa, Florence, Italy	Improved the telescope, proved that not all objects orbited Earth, discovered sunspots, and invented the pendulum and the first thermometer.	Galileo Galilei	79%
Dole, Jura, France	Created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax and created a way to sterilize milk and wine.	Louis Pasteur	77%
Vinci, Florence	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.	Leonardo Da Vinci	75%
Toruń, Poland	First person to formulate a heliocentric model of the universe and often regarded as the person who started the scientific revolution.	Nicolaus Copernicus	74%
Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Austrian Empire	A monk, he was the founder of genetics, he tested his theory on pea plants.	Gregor Mendel	71%
Lochfield, Ayrshire, Scotland	Discovered penicillin.	Alexander Fleming	66%
Oxford, UK	Known for gravitational singularity theorems, the prediction that black holes should emit radiation and for having motor neuron disease.	Stephen Hawking	66%
Syracuse, Sicily	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.	Archimedes	62%
Belfast, Ireland	Developed the first and second laws of thermodynamics, absolute zero, has a temperature scale named after him.	Lord Kelvin (William Thomson)	58%
Copenhagen, Denmark	Was one of the founders of quantum mechanics, and contributed a lot to the understanding of atomic structure.	Niels Bohr	57%
Chicago, Illinois, USA	Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA with Francis Crick.	James Watson	55%
Brightwater, New Zealand	Discovered the half-life in radioactivity, the proton, and was the first person to split an atom. He has an element named after him.	Ernest Rutherford	50%
Clermont-Ferrand, France	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.	Blaise Pascal	48%
Weil der Stadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	Extensively studied the motion of planets and their elliptical orbit around the sun.	Johannes Kepler	46%
Rome, Italy	One of the creators of the atomic bomb, contributed to the quantum theory, and nuclear and particle physics. An element is named after him.	Enrico Fermi	45%
Lennep, Germany	Discovered x-rays and has an element named after him.	Wilhelm Röntgen	45%
Kiel, Germany	Won the nobel prize for creating the quantum theory.	Max Planck	37%
Newington Butts, UK	He discovered electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism, and electrolysis. Also discovered that magnetism could affect rays of light.	Michael Faraday	36%
New York City, New York, USA	Discovered and developed the polio vaccine.	Jonas Salk	35%
Leipzig, Germany	He developed infintesimal calculus independently of Isaac Newton.	Goffried von Leibniz	34%
Paris, France	Named oxygen and hydrogen and established that sulfur was an element. He also discovered the law of conservation of mass.	Antoine Lavoisier	32%
Edinburgh, Scotland	Fomulated the electromagnetic theory, and laid the foundations for special relativity and quantum mechanics.	James Clerk Maxwell	31%
Berkeley, UK	Pioneered the smallpox vaccine.	Edward Jenner	29%
Marshfield, Missouri, USA	Often gets the credit for discovering the red shift, and that objects in space are spreading out.	Edwin Hubble	28%
Råshult, Sweden	The father of modern taxonomy (binomial nomenclature) and ecology.	Carolus Linnaeus	26%
New York City, New York, USA	Assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, created nanotechnology, and increased our understanding of quantum electrodynamics.	Richard Feynman	21%
Portland, Oregon	One of the founders of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. He won two nobel prizes, one in peace and one in physics.	Linus Pauling	18%
Delft, Netherlands	He was the first person to observe and document single celled organisms.	Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek	17%
Freshwater, UK	First coined the word Cell. Claimed that Isaac Newton stole his ideas.	Robert Hooke	17%
Manchester, UK	Discovery of the electron, isotopes, and invented the mass spectrometer.	J. J. Thomson	14%
Bazentin, France	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.	Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck	10%
Vienna, Austria	Discovered Entropy (S= K*log W) and committed suicide.	Ludwig Boltzmann	10%
Penzance, Cornwall, UK	Discovered sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron and barium. He also clarified that iodine and chlorine were elements.	Humphry Davy	8%
Cyrene, Libya	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.	Eratosthenes	7%
Kabete, Kenya	An archaeologist and naturalist whose work supported Darwin's Theory of Evolution.	Louis Leakey	5%
Lancaster, UK	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.	Richard Owen	5%