Statistics for Scientists by Letter - A

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Lifespan	Clue	Scientist	% Correct
1879–1955	Formulated the Special and General theories of Relativity	Albert Einstein	100%
1833–1896	Dynamite inventor and Peace Prize namesake	Alfred Nobel	95%
1881–1955	Discovered penicillin by accident in 1928	Alexander Fleming	92%
1847–1922	Telephone inventor	Alexander Graham Bell	92%
1912–1954	Broke the enigma code and was prosecuted in for homosexual acts	Alan Turing	87%
287–212	Inventor who cried "Eureka!" while sitting in the bathtub	Archimedes	84%
1745–1827	Inventor of the battery. A unit of electrical potential is named after him	Alessandro Volta	79%
1775–1836	The unit of measurement of electric current is named after this French scientist who coined the term "solenoid"	André-Marie Ampère	74%
384–322	Philosopher who has been called the father of logic, biology, rhetoric, and more	Aristotle	74%
1743–1794	Considered the father of modern chemistry, he was guillotined in the French Revolution	Antoine Lavoisier	58%
1815–1852	Widely regarded as the first computer programmer	Ada Lovelace	55%
1632–1723	First person to see single-celled organisms	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	37%
1701–1744	Namesake and the inventor of the most commonly used temperature scale	Anders Celcius	34%
980–1037	Persian polymath who is regarded as the father of modern medicine	Avicenna	21%
310–230	Ancient Greek mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model	Aristarchus of Samos	8%