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100 scientists who changed the world - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 2,276 times
- The average score is 38 of 100
Answer Stats
| year of birth and death | major field | HINT | Name | % Correct |
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| 1642-1727 | Physics | apple on head | Sir Isaac Newton | 93%
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| 1879-1955 | Physics | relativity | Albert Einstein | 92%
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| 1452-1519 | Polymath | mona lisa | Leonardo da Vinci | 85%
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| 1867-1934 | Chemistry | Radiation | Marie Curie | 83%
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| c. 427-347 B.C. | Philosophy | big three | Plato | 82%
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| 1847-1931 | Inventor | light bulb | Thomas Alva Edison | 81%
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| 1809-1881 | Biology | evolution | Charles Darwin | 80%
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| 1564-1642 | Astronomy | stellar observations | Galileo Galilei | 80%
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| c. 384-322 B.C. | Philosophy | big three | Aristotle | 79%
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| c. 581-497 B.C. | Mathematics | a²+b²=c² | Pythagoras | 79%
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| c. 287-212 B.C. | Inventor | EUREKA | Archimedes | 75%
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| 1473-1543 | Astronomy | heliocentrism | Nicolaus Copernicus | 75%
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| 1822-1884 | Biology | inheritance | Johann Gregor Mendel | 68%
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| 1942- | Physics | theory of everything | Stephen Hawking | 68%
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| 1856-1943 | Inventor | # magnetism | Nikola Tesla | 67%
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| 1847-1922 | Inventor | Call me maybe | Alexander Graham Bell | 65%
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| 1881-1955 | Medicine | penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 64%
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| c. 460-377 B.C. | Medicine | ...'oath | Hippocrates of Cos | 64%
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| c. 1870 - 1950 | Inventor | flight | The Wright Brothers | 64%
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| 1833-1896 | Inventor | dynamite | Alfred Nobel | 63%
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| 1706-1790 | Polymath | lightning rod | Benjamin Franklin | 63%
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| 1920-1958 | Chemistry | X-ray crystallography | Rosalind Franklin | 63%
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| 1856-1939 | Philosophy | everything is sex | Sigmund Freud | 63%
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| 1822-1895 | Microbiology | heat treatment of food | Louis Pasteur | 61%
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| 1596-1650 | Philosophy | i think, therefore I am | Rene Descartes | 61%
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| 1887-1961 | Physics | ...'s cat | Erwin Schrodinger | 60%
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| 1736-1819 | Inventor | better steam engine | James Watt | 60%
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| 1400-1468 | Inventor | Johannes Gutenberg | 60%
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| 1656-1742 | Astronomy | ...'s comet | Edmund Halley | 58%
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| 1824-1907 | Physics | Temperature | Lord Kelvin | 58%
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| 1904-1967 | Physics | nuke | Robert Oppenheimer | 58%
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| c. 330-260 B.C. | Mathematics | father of math | Euclid | 57%
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| 1791-1867 | Physics | ...'s cage | Michael Faraday | 56%
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| 1885-1962 | Physics | atomic structure | Niels Bohr | 55%
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| 1745-1827 | Chemistry | battery inventor | Count Alessandro Volta | 54%
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| 1571-1630 | Astronomy | 3 laws of ... | Johannes Kepler | 51%
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| 1858-1947 | Physics | ...'s constant | Max Planck | 51%
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| 1928- | Biology | DNA | James Dewey Watson | 50%
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| 1847-1937 | Inventor | Radio | Guglielmo Marconi | 49%
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| 1912-1954 | Computer science | father of AI | Alan Turing | 47%
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| 1834-1907 | Chemistry | classification of elements | Dmitri Mendeleev | 47%
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| 1889-1953 | Astronomy | 's telescope | Edwin Hubble | 47%
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| 1845-1923 | Physics | X-ray | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen | 47%
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| 1901-1954 | Physics | ...'s uncertainty principle | Werner Heisenberg | 45%
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| 1871-1937 | Chemistry | Nuclear physics | Ernest Rutherford | 43%
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| 1623-1662 | Mathematics | fluid mechanics, #pressure | Blaise Pascal | 41%
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| 1755-1836 | Physics | electric current | Andre-Marie Ampere | 37%
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| 1686-1736 | Physics | Temperature | Daniel Fahrenheit | 37%
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| 1901-1954 | Physics | radioactivity | Enrico Fermi | 37%
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| 1914-1995 | Medicine | polio | Jonas Salk | 36%
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| 1776-1856 | Chemistry | atoms in a mole | Amedo Avogadro | 34%
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| 1743-1794 | Chemistry | metric system | Antoine Lavoisier | 34%
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| 1749-1823 | Medicine | vacine | Edward Jenner | 33%
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| 1561-1626 | Philosophy | scientific method | Francis Bacon | 33%
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| 1831-1879 | Physics | unification of electromagnetic laws | James Clerk Maxwell | 33%
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| 1791-1871 | Polymath | father of computer | Charles Babbage | 30%
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| 1627-1691 | Chemistry | P*V = constant | Robert Boyle | 29%
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| 1955- | Computer science | www | Tim Berners-Lee | 28%
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| 1818-1920 | Physics | # energy | James Joule | 27%
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| 90-168 A.D. | Polymath | Egyptian genius | Ptolemy | 26%
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| 1766-1844 | Physics | colour blindness | John Dalton | 25%
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| 1635-1703 | Polymath | F = k X (springs) | Robert Hooke | 25%
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| 1740-1810 | Inventor | hot air balloon | Joseph Montgolfier | 24%
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| 1578-1657 | Medicine | blood circulation | William Harvey | 22%
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| 1632-1723 | Microbiology | microscope | Anton van Leeuwenhoek | 21%
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| 130-201 A.D. | Medicine | father of physiology | Galen of Pergamum | 20%
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| 1736-1806 | Physics | # electricity | Charles de Coulomb | 17%
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| 1856-1940 | Physics | electron | Sir John Joseph Thomson | 16%
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| c. 460-370 B.C. | Philosophy | father of modern science | Democritus of Abdera | 15%
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| 1857-1894 | Physics | Electro-magnetic waves | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz | 15%
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| 1852-1908 | Physics | # radiation | Antoine-Henri Becquerel | 14%
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| 1901-1994 | Chemistry | quantum chemistry | Linus Carl Pauling | 14%
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| 1834-1900 | Inventor | combustion engine in cars | Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler | 14%
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| 1778-1850 | Chemistry | Gas laws | Joseph Gay-Lussac | 13%
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| 1629-1695 | Mathematics | game of chance | Christiann Huygens | 12%
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| 1908- | Physics | hydrogen bomb | Edward Teller | 12%
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| 1733-1804 | Chemistry | oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 12%
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| 1891-1974 | Physics | neutron | Sir James Chadwick | 12%
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| 1514-1564 | Medicine | anatomy founder | Andreas Vesalius | 11%
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| 1892-1987 | Physics | wave-particle duality | Louis de Broglie | 11%
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| 1882-1945 | Inventor | Rocketry | Robert Goddard | 11%
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| c. 611-547 B.C. | Philosophy | School of Milete | Anaximander | 10%
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| 1731-1810 | Chemistry | density of earth | Henry Cavendish | 10%
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| 800-850 | Mathematics | numbers, 0 | Al-Khwarizmi | 9%
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| 1907-1996 | Inventor | jet engine | Sir Frank Whittle | 9%
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| 1891-1941 | Medicine | insulin | Frederick Banting | 8%
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| 1663-1729 | Inventor | steam engine | Thomas Newcomen | 8%
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| c. 170-125 B.C. | Astronomy | precession of equinoxes | Hipparchus | 6%
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| 1728-1799 | Chemistry | latent heat | Joseph Black | 6%
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| 1540-1603 | Physics | father of electromagnetism | William Gilbert | 6%
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| 1910-1989 | Physics | transistor | William Shockley | 6%
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| 1887-1915 | Physics | atomic number | Henry Moseley | 5%
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| 1742-1786 | Chemistry | organic acids, O, W ,H , Ba, Cl, Mo | Karl Wilhelm Scheele | 5%
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| 1863-1944 | Chemistry | Hard plastics | Leo Baekeland | 5%
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| 1866-1945 | Biology | chromosomes | Thomas Hunt Morgan | 5%
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| 78-139 A.D. | Polymath | Chinese genius | Zhang Heng | 5%
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| 1877-1956 | Chemistry | isotopes | Frederick Soddy | 4%
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| 1822-1900 | Inventor | combustion engine | Jean-Joseph Lenoir | 4%
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| 1579-1644 | Chemistry | pneumatic chemistry | Johann van Helmont | 4%
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| 1854-1915 | Microbiology | Gram staining | Paul Ehrlich | 4%
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