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Scientists by Letter - A

Guess these scientists whose first names start with the letter A.
Red numbers indicate Before Christ (BC)
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Last updated: January 5, 2023
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Scientist
1912–1954
Broke the enigma code and was prosecuted in for homosexual acts
Alan Turing
1881–1955
Discovered penicillin by accident in 1928
Alexander Fleming
1879–1955
Formulated the Special and General theories of Relativity
Albert Einstein
1847–1922
Telephone inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
1833–1896
Dynamite inventor and Peace Prize namesake
Alfred Nobel
1815–1852
Widely regarded as the first computer programmer
Ada Lovelace
1775–1836
The unit of measurement of electric current is named after this
French scientist who coined the term "solenoid"
André-Marie Ampère
1745–1827
Inventor of the battery. A unit of electrical potential is named after him
Alessandro Volta
1743–1794
Considered the father of modern chemistry, he was guillotined
in the French Revolution
Antoine Lavoisier
1701–1744
Namesake and the inventor of the most commonly
used temperature scale
Anders Celcius
1632–1723
First person to see single-celled organisms
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
980–1037
Persian polymath who is regarded as the father of modern medicine
Avicenna
287–212
Inventor who cried "Eureka!" while sitting in the bathtub
Archimedes
310–230
Ancient Greek mathematician who presented the first
known heliocentric model
Aristarchus of Samos
384–322
Philosopher who has been called the father of logic,
biology, rhetoric, and more
Aristotle
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Level 64
Jan 6, 2023
Celsius, not Celcius

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