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Complete History of Science - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 1,792 times
- The average score is 36 of 100
Answer Stats
| Field | Death | Discovery | Scientist | % Correct |
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| Physics | 1955 | Relativity | Albert Einstein | 95%
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| Astronomy | 1642 | Jupiter's moons | Galileo Galilei | 92%
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| Physics, Mathematics | 1727 | Gravity, Calculus | Isaac Newton | 90%
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| Physics | 1934 | Radium / polonium | Marie Curie | 85%
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| Biology | 1882 | Evolution | Charles Darwin | 80%
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| Philosophy, Social Science | 348 BC | Education, Political science | Plato | 79%
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| Astronomy | 1543 | Heliocentrism | Nicolas Copernicus | 78%
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| Biology, Philosophy, Social science | 322 BC | Biology, Logic, Political science | Aristotle | 75%
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| Philosophy | 399 BC | Philosophy | Socrates | 74%
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| Astronomy | 2018 | Black hole radiation | Stephen Hawking | 74%
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| Social Science | 1939 | Psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud | 73%
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| Technology | 1967 | Nuclear weapons | J. Robert Oppenheimer | 69%
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| Technology | 1943 | Alternating current | Nikola Tesla | 68%
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| Miscellaneous | 1896 | Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | 67%
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| Technology | 1912, 1948 | Aviation | Wilbur and Orville Wright | 67%
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| Biology | 1884 | Genetics | Gregor Mendel | 66%
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| Miscellaneous | 1790 | Lightning rod | Benjamin Franklin | 65%
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| Biology | 1958 | Structure of DNA | Rosalind Franklin | 64%
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| Technology | 1931 | Direct current | Thomas Edison | 64%
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| Medicine | 1955 | Penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 62%
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| Medicine | 1895 | _____ization | Louis Pasteur | 61%
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| Technology | 1947 | Assembly line | Henry Ford | 60%
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| Mathematics, Physics | 495 BC | Ratios, Acoustics | Pythagoras | 59%
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| Social Science | 1790 | Economics | Adam Smith | 58%
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| Mathematics | 270 BC | Geometry | Euclid | 55%
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| Biology | 2025 | Structure of DNA | James Watson | 54%
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| Biology | 2004 | Structure of DNA | Francis Crick | 53%
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| Technology | 1819 | Steam engine | James Watt | 52%
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| Chemistry | 1962 | Electron orbits | Niels Bohr | 52%
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| Mathematics, Technology | 212 BC | Pi, Simple Machines | Archimedes | 51%
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| Chemistry | 1907 | Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 50%
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| Technology | 1954 | Computer science | Alan Turing | 45%
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| Technology | 1827 | Electric battery | Alessandro Volta | 45%
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| Medicine | 370 BC | Medicine | Hippocrates | 45%
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| Astronomy | 1630 | Elliptical orbits | Johannes Kepler | 45%
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| Physics | 1976 | Uncertainty principle | Werner Heisenberg | 44%
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| Chemistry | 1907 | Absolute zero | Lord Kelvin | 42%
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| Philosophy, Mathematics | 1650 | Rationalism, Coordinates | Rene Descartes | 41%
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| Medicine | 1995 | Polio vaccine | Jonas Salk | 40%
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| Social Science | 1936 | Classical conditioning | Ivan Pavlov | 39%
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| Chemistry | 1937 | Atomic nuclei | Ernest Rutherford | 38%
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| Medicine | 1823 | Vaccines | Edward Jenner | 35%
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| Social Science | 425 BC | History | Herodotus | 34%
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| Miscellaneous | 2025 | Primate tool use | Jane Goodall | 31%
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| Physics | 1947 | Quantum theory | Max Planck | 31%
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| Social Science | 1961 | Analytical psychology | Carl Jung | 30%
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| Astronomy | 1953 | Galaxies | Edwin Hubble | 29%
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| Physics | 1954 | Nuclear energy | Enrico Fermi | 29%
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| Technology | 1977 | Rocket science | Wernher von Braun | 29%
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| Mathematics | 1716 | Calculus | Gottfried Leibniz | 28%
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| Social Science | 1946 | Macroeconomics | John Maynard Keynes | 28%
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| Mathematics | 1783 | Functions | Leonhard Euler | 28%
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| Astronomy | 170 AD | Geocentrism | Ptolemy | 28%
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| Philosophy | 1626 | Scientific method | Francis Bacon | 27%
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| Philosophy | 1704 | Liberalism | John Locke | 27%
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| Technology | 1867 | Electric motor | Michael Faraday | 27%
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| Philosophy | 1778 | Free speech | Voltaire | 27%
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| Physics | 1961 | Wave mechanics | Erwin Schrödinger | 25%
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| Social Science | alive | Modern linguistics | Noam Chomsky | 25%
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| Physics | 1923 | Ionizing radiation | Wilhelm Röntgen | 24%
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| Mathematics | 1852 | Programming | Ada Lovelace | 23%
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| Mathematics | 1662 | Calculator | Blaise Pascal | 23%
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| Biology | 1778 | Taxonomy | Carl Linnaeus | 23%
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| Biology | alive | Genes / memes | Richard Dawkins | 21%
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| Chemistry | 1794 | Oxygen | Antoine Lavoisier | 20%
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| Mathematics | 1855 | Number theory | Carl Friedrich Gauss | 19%
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| Miscellaneous | 1997 | SCUBA | Jacques Cousteau | 19%
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| Biology | 1703 | Cells | Robert Hooke | 19%
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| Medicine | 216 AD | Autopsy | Galen of Pergamun | 18%
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| Chemistry | 1691 | Gas pressure | Robert Boyle | 18%
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| Biology, Medicine | 1723 | Microbiology, Bacteria | Antonie von Leeuwenhoek | 17%
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| Astronomy | 1601 | Stellar dynamics | Tycho Brahe | 17%
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| Physics | 1894 | Radio waves | Heinrich Hertz | 15%
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| Chemistry | 1940 | Electrons | JJ Thomson | 15%
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| Chemistry | 1844 | Atomic theory | John Dalton | 15%
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| Physics, Mathematics, Technology, Philosophy | 1957 | Quantum math, Game theory, Simulations, Non-determinism | John von Neumann | 15%
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| Medicine | 1912 | Sterilization | Joseph Lister | 15%
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| Physics | 1988 | Particle physics | Richard Feynman | 15%
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| Philosophy, Mathematics | 545 BC | Naturalism, Proofs | Thales of Miletus | 14%
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| Chemistry | 370 BC | Atomism | Democritus | 13%
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| Social Science | 1990 | Operant conditioning | B.F. Skinner | 12%
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| Physics | 1908 | Radioactivity | Henri Becquerel | 12%
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| Medicine | 1858 | Epidemiology | John Snow | 10%
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| Medicine | 1910 | Germ theory | Robert Koch | 10%
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| Biology | 1657 | Circulation | William Harvey | 10%
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| Mathematics | 290 AD | Algebra | Diophantus | 9%
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| Chemistry | 1968 | Nuclear fission | Lise Meitner | 9%
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| Mathematics | 262 BC | Infinity | Zeno of Alea | 9%
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| Biology | 1564 | Anatomy | Andreas Vesalius | 8%
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| Mathematics | 1665 | Probability | Pierre de Fermat | 8%
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| Mathematics | 1920 | Infinite series | Srinivasa Ramanujan | 8%
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| Astronomy | 1822 | Infrared radiation | William Herschel | 8%
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| Social Science | 192 BC | Geography | Eratosthenes | 7%
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| Mathematics | 668 AD | Zero | Brahmagupta | 5%
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| Miscellaneous | 15 BC | Architecture | Vitruvius | 5%
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| Medicine | 1541 | Toxicology | Paracelsus | 4%
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| Miscellaneous | 1832 | Paleontology | Georges Cuvier | 3%
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| Physics | 1040 | Optics | Ibn al-Haytham | 3%
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| Medicine | 1915 | Chemotherapy | Paul Ehrlich | 3%
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| Biology | 1894 | Vision / hearing | Hermann von Helmholtz | 2%
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