Statistics for The Great Chemists

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Pioneers in field of radioactivity	Marie & Pierre Curie	83%
Invention of dynamite; Nobel prizes	Alfred Nobel	78%
Avogadro's law of gases; Avogadro's number	Amedeo Avogadro	78%
Inventor of the Periodic Table	Dmitri Mendeleev	78%
Discovery of the atomic nucleus	Ernest Rutherford	72%
Boyle's law on gases	Robert Boyle	67%
Hooke's law of elasticity	Robert Hooke	67%
Modern atomic theory	John Dalton	50%
Gay-Lussac's law	Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac	50%
Inventor of the Bunsen burner	Robert Bunsen	50%
Discovery of the composition of water	Antoine Lavoisier	39%
Nitrogen fixation for fertilizers; Chemical weapons	Fritz Haber	39%
100-degree scale thermometer	Anders Celsius	33%
Atomic theory of the Universe	Democritus	33%
Discovery of electromagnetic induction	Michael Faraday	33%
Most influential figure in early Western science	Aristotle	28%
Discovery of electrons	J.J. Thomson	28%
Developed theory of covalent bonding	Linus Pauling	28%
Discovery of transuranium elements	Glenn Seaborg	22%
Pioneer of electrolysis	Humphry Davy	22%
Theory of ideas or forms	Plato	22%
Promotion of experimental scientific method	Roger Bacon	22%
Construction of first nuclear reactor	Enrico Fermi	17%
Discovery of the citric acid cycle	Hans Krebs	17%
Identification of hydrogen gas	Henry Cavendish	17%
Pioneer in field of radioactivity	Henri Becquerel	11%
Invention of the particle accelerator	Ernest O. Lawrence	6%
Development of the theory of atomism	Leucippus	6%
Invention of nylon	Wallace Carothers	6%
Discovery of electromagnetism	Hans Christion Orsted	0%
Invention of the hydrometer	Hypatia of Alexandria	0%
Atomic weights; Modern chemical symbols	Jons Jakob Berzelius	0%
Discovery of carbon dioxide	Joseph Black	0%
Discovery of chirality	Louis Pasteur	0%
Discovery of uranium and other elements	Martin Klaproth	0%
Invention of the bain-marie	Mary the Jewess	0%
Coinventor of calorimeter	Pierre-Simon Laplace	0%
Development of Avogadro's law on molecular weights	Stanislao Cannizzaro	0%
Ionic theory of reactions	Svante Arrhenius	0%