Statistics for Famous Scientific Experimenters

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Pioneered research into radioactivity.	Marie Curie	96%
Demonstrated evolution by natural selection.	Charles Darwin	93%
Invented pasteurization.	Louis Pasteur	93%
Discovered double helix shape of DNA.	James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin	89%
Demonstrated how lightning is a form of electrical discharge.	Benjamin Franklin	78%
Experimented with peas to discover fundemental laws of genetics.	Gregor Mendel	78%
Experimented with classical conditioning.	Ivan Pavlov	74%
Tested differences in pitch with approaching and passing noises.	Christian Doppler	52%
Used gold foil to discover the positive nucleus of an atom.	Ernest Rutherford	52%
Showed the volume of a gas was inversely related to the correspdoning pressure.	Robert Boyle	33%
First person to observe a cell under a microscope.	Robert Hooke	26%
Conducted the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment.	Philip Zimbardo	15%
Experimented with operant conditioning.	B. F. Skinner	7%
Studied human obedience in the presence of an authority figure.	Stanley Milgram	7%