| Clue | Scientist | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | E=mc² | Albert Einstein | 98%
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| D | Theory of evolution | Charles Darwin | 93%
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| N | Discovered gravity | Isaac Newton | 92%
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| G | Discovered Jupiter's moons | Galileo Galilei | 88%
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| C | Studied radioactivity | Marie Curie | 85%
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| A | Versatile ancient Greek philosopher and scientist | Aristotle | 82%
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| J | Studied thermodynamics and is the namesake of an SI unit of energy | James Prescott Joule | 75%
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| H | English theoretical physicist and victim of ALS | Stephen Hawking | 70%
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| O | Worked on the Manhattan Project | J. Robert Oppenheimer | 69%
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| M | Founder of modern genetics | Gregor Mendel | 68%
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| B | Jewish Dane who created an early model of the atom | Niels Bohr | 66%
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| V | Inventor of the electric battery | Alessandro Volta | 62%
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| F | Discovered electromagnetic induction | Michael Faraday | 62%
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| K | Studied planetary motion during the Scientific Revolution | Johannes Kepler | 57%
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| P | German originator of quantum theory | Max Planck | 52%
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| S | Austrian physicist with a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive | Erwin Schrödinger | 50%
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| W | Co-discoverer of DNA's structure | James Watson | 49%
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| L | "Father of modern chemistry" | Antoine Lavoisier | 46%
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| R | Father of nuclear physics | Ernest Rutherford | 45%
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| T | Current American astrophysicist and science communicator | Neil deGrasse Tyson | 31%
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| Z | Inventor of the world's first programmable computer | Konrad Zuse | 5%
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| Q | Renowned Australian particle physicist | Helen Quinn | 4%
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| I | Provided the first evidence of continental drift | Edward Irving | 2%
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| X | Chief of nuclear research in China | He Xiantu | 1%
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| U | Canadian Down syndrome researcher | Irene Uchida | 1%
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| Y | Developed the RIA technique | Rosalyn Sussman Yalow | 1%
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