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Hint	Answer	% Correct
General Theory of Relativity.	Albert Einstein	93%
Discovery of polonium and radium.	Marie Curie	81%
Classical mechanics.	Isaac Newton	78%
Laws of planetary motion.	Johannes Kepler	78%
Model of the hydrogen atom where the negatively charged electron confined to an atomic shell encircles a small, positively charged atomic nucleus and where an electron jump between orbits is accompanied by an emitted or absorbed amount of electromagnetic energy.	Neils Bohr	78%
Uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics.	Werner Heisenberg	78%
Electromagnetic theory.	James Clerk Maxwell	74%
Discovery of atomic nucleus.	Ernest Rutherford	67%
First use of a telescope to systematically observe celestial objects and record discoveries.	Galileo Galilei	67%
Law of electromagnetic induction.	Michael Faraday	67%
Geometric mathematical model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.	Nicolaus Copernicus	67%
Modern alternating current electricity supply system.	Nikola Tesla	67%
Exclusion principle of fermions.	Wolfgang Pauli	67%
Description of the buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid.	Archimedes	63%
Law that describes the force interacting between static electrically charged particles.	Charles-Augustin de Coulomb	63%
Wave mechanics in quantum theory.	Erwin Schrodinger	63%
Circuit laws (dealing with current and voltage).	Gustav Kirchoff	63%
In quantum field theory, diagrams that help interactions to be conveniently visualized.	Richard Feynman	63%
Prediction of the black-body radiation released by black holes, due to quantum effects near the event horizon.	Stephen Hawking	56%
Explanation about black-body radiation with the development of a law that was a pioneering result of quantum theory.	Max Planck	52%
Relativistic wave equation that describes the behavior of fermions and predicts the existence of antimatter.	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	48%
Experimental gas law that describes how the pressure of a gas tends to increase as the volume of the container decreases.	Robert Boyle	48%
First electric battery.	Allesandro Volta	44%
Demonstration of the first self-sustaining Nuclear chain reaction.	Enrico Fermi	44%
Derivation of transformation equations which forms the basis of the special relativity theory.	Hendrik Lorentz	44%
Discovery of radioactivity.	Henri Becquerel	44%
First great reformulation of classical mechanics.	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	44%
Prediction of a fundamental field of crucial importance to particle physics theory that explains why some fundamental particles have mass when, based on the symmetries controlling their interactions, they should be massless.	Peter Higgs	44%
Law of elasticity.	Robert Hooke	41%
Transport equation that describes the statistical behavior of a thermodynamic system not in a state of equilibrium.	Ludwig Boltzmann	37%
Circuital law that relates the integrated magnetic field around a closed loop to the electric current passing through the loop.	Andre-Marie Ampere	33%
Discovery of the neutron.	James Chadwick	33%
Formulation of the standard interpretation of the probability density function in quantum mechanics.	Max Born	33%
Law relating the distribution of electric charge to the resulting electric field.	Carl Friedrich Gauss	30%
Principle that states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.	Daniel Bernoulli	30%
Long-distance radio transmission.	Guglielmo Marconi	30%
Measurement of the electron's charge (together with Harvey Fletcher).	Robert Andrews Millikan	30%
First mathematical theory of light (a wave theory).	Christiaan Huygens	26%
Identification of the electron.	Joseph John Thompson	26%
First proposal of the wave of natural electrons.	Louis de Broglie	26%
Introduction of the quark, independently of George Zweig.	Murray Gell-Mann	26%
Theorem that states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law.	Amalie Emmy Nother	22%
Proof of existence of electromagnetic waves.	Heinrich Hertz	22%
Principle of least action.	William Rowan Hamilton	19%
In thermodynamics, formulation of the laws which deal with the transfer of energy.	James Prescott Joule	11%
First explicit statement of the First Law of Thermodynamics.	Rudolph Clausius	11%
First formulation of the second law of thermodynamics.	Sadi Carnot	11%
Equation that describes the motion of viscous fluid substances (together with Claude-Louis Navier).	George Strokes	7%
Determination of the approximate value of the lower limit to temperature (absolute zero).	William Thompson, 1st Baron Kelvin	7%
Introduction of azimuthal and spin quantum numbers.	Arnold Sommerfield	0%
Effect that demonstrates the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.	Arthur Compton	0%
Explanation that vision occurs when light bounces on an object and then is directed to one's eyes.	Hasan Haytham	0%