Statistics for Top Ten Physicists in History

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Birth Year & Location	Hint	Physicist	% Correct
1879, Germany	Developed the theory of relativity	Albert Einstein	100%
1643, England	His Principia (1687) laid the foundations of classical mechanics	Isaac Newton	94%
1901, Germany	Pioneer of quantum mechanics; well-known for his uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg	72%
1885, Denmark	Made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory	Niels Bohr	71%
1564, Italy	Central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science	Galileo Galilei	66%
1831, Scotland	Formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation	James Clerk Maxwell	63%
1871, New Zealand	Known as the father of nuclear physics	Ernest Rutherford	39%
1887, Austria	Developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory, which formed the basis of wave mechanics	Erwin Schrödinger	39%
1918, United States	Made significant contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics	Richard Feynman	39%
1902, England	Made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics	Paul Dirac	22%