The Faces of Science (Picture Quiz)

These scientists changed the world… but can you recognise their faces ?
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Ada Lovelace
Pioneer of computer science, she created the first computer programme
Nikola Tesla
Enabled the adoption of alternating current
Werner Heisenberg
Demonstrated the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics
Johannes Gutenberg
Invented the printing press
Marie Curie
Discovered polonium and radium, two radioactive chemical elements
Isaac Newton
Founder of classical mechanics, he formulated the law of universal gravitation
Tim Berners-Lee
Invented the World Wide Web
Robert Hooke
Formulated the law of elasticity, and published a book illustrating his microscopic observations
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
Invented the modern mercury thermometer
Leonhard Euler
Major contributor to modern analysis and to many fields of mathematics
Johannes Kepler
Discovered the three laws governing planetary motion
Benjamin Franklin
Invented the lightning rod
Leonardo da Vinci
Forerunner of the scientific method based on hypothesis, observation and experimentation
Archimedes
Father of static mechanics, and author of the "Principle of Archimedes"
Alessandro Volta
Invented the first electric battery (the voltaic pile)
Thomas Edison
Founder of General Electric, he perfected the already existing model of the light bulb
Charles Darwin
Formulated the theories of evolution and natural selection
Hippocrates
Father of Medicine
Stephen William Hawking
Conducted research on black holes and cosmology
Alan Turing
Inventor of the computer and pioneer of artificial intelligence
Alexander Fleming
Discovered penicillin
André-Marie Ampère
Founder of electromagnetism
Enrico Fermi
Created the very first nuclear reactor
Richard Feynman
Worked on quantum electrodynamics, quarks and superfluid helium
Gregor Mendel
Father of genetics and of the laws of inheritance
Aristotle
Father of logic and metaphysics
Thales
Formulated the famous Thales' Theorem
James Watt
Perfected the already existing model of the steam engine
René Descartes
Father of modern rationalism, he invented the Cartesian coordinate system
Blaise Pascal
Invented the first mechanical calculator (the Pascaline)
Galileo
Father of modern astronomy and a pioneer of astronomical observation
Robert Boyle
One of the fathers of modern chemistry
Albert Einstein
Father of the theory of relativity and a major contributor to modern physics
Louis Pasteur
Pioneer of microbiology, he developed the rabies vaccine
Nicolaus Copernicus
Developed and defended the theory of heliocentrism, according to which the Earth orbits the Sun
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Major contributor to algebra and geometry, he is known as the "Prince of Mathematicians"
Rosalind Franklin
Contributed to the discovery of the helical structure of DNA
Pythagoras
Formulated the famous Pythagorean Theorem
Niels Bohr
Proposed a revolutionary model of atomic structure
Erwin Schrödinger
Founding father of quantum mechanics, he imagined the "Schrödinger’s Cat" thought experiment
Dmitri Mendeleev
Established the periodic classification of the elements
Antoine Lavoisier
One of the fathers of modern chemistry
Max Planck
Founder of quantum mechanics, he introduced the concept of quanta of energy
James Clerk Maxwell
Pioneer of statistical physics and electromagnetism
Daniel Bernoulli
One of the founders of hydrodynamics, and author of "Bernoulli’s Theorem"
Michael Faraday
Pioneer of electromagnetism
Carl Linnaeus
Established the binomial system of nomenclature
Euclid
Founder of Euclidean geometry, he also introduced Euclidean division
Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the telephone
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