Statistics for 100 Most Influential Scientists in my Opinion

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#	Hint	Discipline	Answer	% Correct
5	"The Origin of Species", developed the Theory of Evolution	Biology	Charles Darwin	99%
3	Three laws of motion, Theory of Gravity, Calculus, contributions to Optics	Physics, Mathematics	Isaac Newton	99%
11	Developed the Theory of Relativity, proposed the Photon, described the statistics of Bosons	Physics	Albert Einstein	98%
1	Discovered Jupiter's Moons, developed concept of Inertia, improved Telescope, proposed Heliocentrism, Scientific Method	Physics, Mathematics	Galileo Galilei	97%
7	First modern scientist to propose a Heliocentric Cosmos	Astronomy	Nicolaus Copernicus	88%
4	"a² + b² = c²", Theory of Harmony, might be the first to discover the spherical nature of the earth	Mathemetics, Astronomy, Musical Theory	Pythagoras	88%
6	Father of Psychoanalysis	Psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	88%
2	Ancient philosopher, contributed to Logic, Biology, Physics, Drama Theory, Political Theory, Psychology and more	Everything	Aristotle	85%
44	Founder of genetics, experimented with peas to develope the Rules of Inheritance	Biology	Gregor Mendel	84%
61	Discovered polonium and radium, was awarded with the nobel price for physics and chemistry	Physics, Chemistry	Marie Curie	83%
21	Developed Penicillin, the first antibioticum	Medicine, Biology	Alexander Fleming	80%
8	Discovered principle of floatation and the lever, invented the screw punp	Mathematics,Physics	Archimedes	79%
17	Developed a Computer and its algorithms, which were able to break the enigma code	Computer Science	Alan Turing	78%
28	Author of the "Elements", the most important ancient work on Geometry	Mathematics	Euclid	76%
10	Developed the period table of elements	Chemistry	Dmitri Mendeleev	75%
26	Author of the "Wealth of Nations", father of classical Economics	Economics	Adam Smith	74%
45	Developed vaccines against Rabies, Anthrax and Chicken cholera, invented the process of heating milk to kill its bacteria	Medicine	Louis Pasteur	74%
23	Developed the laws of planetary motion	Physics	Johannes Kepler	73%
12	Father of Medicine, coined the oath of doctors, discribed and categorized many diseases	Medicine	Hippocrates	71%
53	Developed the multi-phase AC current, gave the unit for magnetic flux density his name, experimented with wireless communication	Physics	Nicola Tesla	70%
24	Father of Quantum Physics, described black body radiation, discovered the constant to describe the relation of frequency and energy of light	Physics	Max Planck	68%
18	Experimentally examined electromagnetism, developed the law of induction, a cage to guard from lightnings, contributed to the invention of the electric motor	Physics, Chemistry	Michael Faraday	65%
59	Discovered the double helix structure of DNA	Biology	Francis Crick	59%
58	Discovered the double helix structure of DNA	Biology	James Watson	58%
83	Known for his experiments with conditioning dogs	Psychology	Ivan Pavlov	57%
9	Invented the vaccine	Medicine	Edward Jenner	56%
16	Gave the Number e his name, introduced the standart notation of Math, developed the angles to describe elemental rotations	Mathematics, Physics	Leonard Euler	52%
13	Inventor of the microscope, discoverer of bacteria	Physics, Biology	Antonie van Leeuwenhoek	51%
80	Founder of analytic psychology, known for his concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes and anima and animus	Psychoanalysis	Carl Jung	51%
99	Discovered the nucleus of atoms	Physics	Ernest Rutherford	51%
14	Developed the coordinate system, founding analytic geometrics, explained the rainbow	Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy	Rene Descartes	51%
52	Developed the theory of hydro-pressure, gave the unit for pressure his name, developed the binomial distribution, invented a mechanical calculator	Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy	Blaise Pascal	49%
36	Invented the self-sustaining nuclar chain reaction, explained the statistics of Spin-1/2-Particels and gave them his name, explained beta-radiation,	Physics	Enrico Fermi	49%
76	Developed conflict theory in sociology, dialectical materialism as paradimn for discribing history, the value theory of labor, father of communism	Sociology, Economics, Political Theory, Philosophy	Karl Marx	49%
56	Discovered the role of Oxygen in combustion, reformed chemical nomenclature, pioneer of stoichiometry	Chemistry, Biology	Antoine Lavoisier	47%
60	Made X-ray diffraction images of DNA, which helped to identify its structure	Biology	Rosalind Franklin	45%
31	Developed a set of four equations to describe all electromagnetic phenomens, predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves	Physics	James Clerk Maxwell	41%
71	Inventor of the economic theory, which demanded the state to invest money in times of crisis	Economics	John Maynard Keynes	41%
42	Co-invented calculus, invented binary numbers, invented a mechanical calculator, laid the foundation for Paleontology amd Speleology ...	Everything	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	40%
35	Introduced Europe to the islamic and indian mathematics, "1 1 2 3 5 8 13..."	Mathematics	Leonardo Fibonacci	36%
57	Father of Taxonomy and scientific classification of animals and plants	Biology	Carl Linnaeus	34%
88	Proposed the Neutrino, discovered the exclusion principle of fermions	Physics	Wolfgang Pauli	34%
39	First programmer for an mechanical computer	Mathematics, Computer Science	Ada Lovelace	33%
15	“Mathematicorum Principi”, developed the Normal Distribution, the Divergence Theory, examined Earth's magnetic field and more	Mathematics, Physics	Carl Friedrich Gauss	32%
66	Inventor of the World Wide Web	Computer Science, Physics	Tim Berners-Lee	32%
47	Most important proponent of behavioralism, invented the operant conditioning chamber	Psychology	B. F. Skinner	28%
20	Developed an influential branch of reform pedagogy in the "Casa dei Bambini"	Pedagogy	Maria Montessori	27%
30	Introduced the Atomic Theory into Chemistry	Chemistry	John Dalton	26%
37	Most important physician of the Roman Empire, developed the four temperaments theory	Medicine	Galen	25%
50	Developed the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, wrote his famous "Lectures on Physics"	Physics	Richard Feynman	25%
69	Developed the concept of orbital hybridisation, was awarded for the nobel price for peace for engagement against nuclear weapons	Chemistry	Linus Pauling	24%
38	Developed the universal grammar theory and the hierarchy of classes of formal grammars	Linguistics	Noam Chomsky	23%
92	Pioneer of the scientific theory, who developed the equation which described the relation of pressure and volume of a gas	Chemistry	Robert Boyle	23%
87	"Father of American psychology", proponent of Pragmatism	Psychology	William James	23%
25	Author of "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" and "Politics as a Vocation", greatly influencing Sociology	Sociology, Economics	Max Weber	22%
29	First known Scientist of Greece, predicted an eclipse, developed the intercept theorem and that all angles on the semicircle arc are right angles	Mathematics, Philosophy, Astronomy	Thales	22%
55	Greatest physician of the middle ages, author of the "Canon Of Medicine" and the "The Book of Healing", also known as Ibn Sina	Medicine, Philosophy	Avicenna	21%
43	Inventor of algebraic logic, formalized logic, the valuetype of logical values (true,false) are called after him in most programming languages	Logics, Mathematics	George Boole	21%
85	Developed spectroscopy (with Kirchhoff), invented the burner, that is used in many chemical laboratories	Chemistry	Konrad Bunsen	17%
51	Distributed to thermodynamics, discovered, that the entropy is proportional to the logarithm of possible states, the physical constant k is named after him	Physics	Ludwig Boltzmann	16%
77	Author of "The Fall of the Roman Empire"	Historigraphy	Edward Gibbon	15%
54	Inventor of the ammonia synthesis from nitrogen and hydrogen, father of chemical warfare	Chemistry	Fritz Haber	15%
46	Invented a treatment for tuberculosis and cholera, discovered acquired immunity, set the standards for examining disease-causing microorganisms	Medicine	Robert Koch	15%
75	Developed a transformation, which can be used to transform from a time space to a frequency space, proved, that all periodically functions can be described as a sum of sinus and cosinus functions	Mathematics, Physics	Joseph Fourier	14%
32	Developed Socialdarwinism, "Survival of the Fittest"	Sociology, Biology	Herbert Spencer	13%
22	Father of Epistemology, helped to prevent Cholera, developed and tested Anesthesia	Medicine	John Snow	13%
63	Developed the incompleteness theorems, which stated the mathematics can not be based purely on a set of axioms	Mathematics	Kurt Gödel	13%
49	Developed the Continental drift theory	Geology	Alfred Wegener	12%
64	Greatly distributed to non-euclidean geometry, developed the zeta-function, developed the curvature tensor	Mathematics	Bernhard Riemann	12%
19	Father of Sociology and Positivism,	Sociology, Philosophy, Mathematics	Auguste Comte	11%
33	Developed "The Rules of Sociological Method" and examined labour division, major proponent of structural functionalism	Sociology, Pedagogy	Émile Durkheim	11%
81	Proponent of structural psychoanalysis, known for the concepts of the mirror phase and the destinction of the real, the symbolic and the imaginary	Psychoanalysis	Jacques Lacan	11%
94	Discovered hydrogen, measured the density of the earth	Chemistry, Physics	Henry Cavendish	10%
65	Founders of modern ethology, examined instinctive behaviour of geese	Biology	Konrad Lorenz	10%
74	Developed a system for describing mechanics, calculated the points at which planets are followed by trojans, developed the formalism for solving optimation problems	Mathematics, Physics	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	9%
78	Inventor of the electronical computer	Computer Science	Konrad Zuse	9%
72	Most prominent protagonist of the neoliberal Chicago School of economics	Economics	Milton Friedmann	9%
89	Co-developed the statistics of fermions, merged quantum mechanics with special relativity, predicted antimatter	Physics	Paul Dirac	9%
27	Developed linguistic Structuralism and contributed to Semiotics	Linguistics	Ferdinand de Saussure	7%
90	Developed Set Theory and the theory of infinite numbers	Mathematics	Georg Cantor	7%
93	Isolated elements such as potassium, calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron, using electrolysis	Chemistry	Humphry Davy	7%
70	"Saviour of mothers", who fought childbed fever and introduced hand disinfection standards	Medicine	Ignaz Semmelweis	7%
67	Explained the photosyntheses	Chemistry, Biology	Melvin Calvin	7%
34	Introduced indian numbers and zero to islamic mathematics, invented several algorithms, merged arithmetrics and geometry	Mathematics	Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi	7%
73	Developed a system for describing mechanics, developed the quaternions, coined the words "tensor" and scalar	Physics, Mathematics	William Rowan Hamilton	7%
62	Developed a list of problems, mathematician should solve, developed the vector space, which is used in quantum mechanics	Mathematics	David Hilbert	6%
40	Co-developed the first transistor and a theory for explaining superconductivity, won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice	Physics, Electronical Engineering	John Bardeen	6%
100	Greatest physician of Rennaisance, "father of toxicology"	Medicine	Paracelsus	5%
84	Developed the formal language and a theory in which mathematics is purely based on formal logic	Mathematics	Gottlob Frege	4%
96	Discovered blood types	Medicine	Karl Landsteiner	4%
68	Inventor of the first plastic	Chemistry	Leo H. Baekeland	4%
98	Discovered the Milieu interieur, examined the function of the liver and was able to explain diabetes	Medicine	Claude Bernard	2%
91	"Founding father of paleontology", developed zoology as comparative anatomy	Biology	Georges Cuvier	2%
79	Author of the "Psychology of the Masses"	Psychology, Sociology	Gustave Le Bon	2%
95	Founder of the Annales-School of history	Historiography	Marc Bloch	2%
86	Ancient father of Linguistics	Linguistics	Panini	2%
82	Founder of Völkerpsychologie, developed Psychology towards an indepent discipline, the "father of experimental psychology"	Psychology	Wilhelm Wundt	2%
41	Co-developed the first transistor and a special type of diode	Physics, Electronical Engineering	William Shockley	2%
48	Father of Indo-European studies, discoverer of the relation of european languages and Sanskrit	Linguistics	Franz Bopp	1%
97	First mathematician to use non-euclidean geometry	Mathematics	Nikolai Lobachevsky	1%