The Faces of Science (Picture Quiz) - Statistics

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Hint	Extra Hint	% Correct
Thomas Edison	Founder of General Electric, he perfected the already existing model of the light bulb	86%
Albert Einstein	Father of the theory of relativity and a major contributor to modern physics	86%
Stephen William Hawking	Conducted research on black holes and cosmology	86%
Nikola Tesla	Enabled the adoption of alternating current	71%
Isaac Newton	Founder of classical mechanics, he formulated the law of universal gravitation	57%
Galileo	Father of modern astronomy and a pioneer of astronomical observation	57%
Marie Curie	Discovered polonium and radium, two radioactive chemical elements	57%
Nicolaus Copernicus	Developed and defended the theory of heliocentrism, according to which the Earth orbits the Sun	57%
Leonhard Euler	Major contributor to modern analysis and to many fields of mathematics	43%
Daniel Bernoulli	One of the founders of hydrodynamics, and author of "Bernoulli’s Theorem"	43%
René Descartes	Father of modern rationalism, he invented the Cartesian coordinate system	43%
Tim Berners-Lee	Invented the World Wide Web	43%
James Clerk Maxwell	Pioneer of statistical physics and electromagnetism	43%
Blaise Pascal	Invented the first mechanical calculator (the Pascaline)	43%
Dmitri Mendeleev	Established the periodic classification of the elements	43%
Max Planck	Founder of quantum mechanics, he introduced the concept of quanta of energy	43%
Benjamin Franklin	Invented the lightning rod	43%
Alan Turing	Inventor of the computer and pioneer of artificial intelligence	43%
Erwin Schrödinger	Founding father of quantum mechanics, he imagined the "Schrödinger’s Cat" thought experiment	43%
Leonardo da Vinci	Forerunner of the scientific method based on hypothesis, observation and experimentation	43%
Johannes Kepler	Discovered the three laws governing planetary motion	29%
Thales	Formulated the famous Thales' Theorem	29%
Robert Hooke	Formulated the law of elasticity, and published a book illustrating his microscopic observations	29%
Louis Pasteur	Pioneer of microbiology, he developed the rabies vaccine	29%
Alexander Fleming	Discovered penicillin	29%
Michael Faraday	Pioneer of electromagnetism	29%
Gregor Mendel	Father of genetics and of the laws of inheritance	29%
Niels Bohr	Proposed a revolutionary model of atomic structure	29%
Charles Darwin	Formulated the theories of evolution and natural selection	29%
Archimedes	Father of static mechanics, and author of the "Principle of Archimedes"	29%
Hippocrates	Father of Medicine	29%
Ada Lovelace	Pioneer of computer science, she created the first computer programme	29%
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit	Invented the modern mercury thermometer	14%
Antoine Lavoisier	One of the fathers of modern chemistry	14%
Werner Heisenberg	Demonstrated the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics	14%
James Watt	Perfected the already existing model of the steam engine	14%
Alessandro Volta	Invented the first electric battery (the voltaic pile)	14%
Carl Friedrich Gauss	Major contributor to algebra and geometry, he is known as the "Prince of Mathematicians"	14%
Pythagoras	Formulated the famous Pythagorean Theorem	14%
Rosalind Franklin	Contributed to the discovery of the helical structure of DNA	14%
Aristotle	Father of logic and metaphysics	14%
Enrico Fermi	Created the very first nuclear reactor	14%
André-Marie Ampère	Founder of electromagnetism	14%
Carl Linnaeus	Established the binomial system of nomenclature	14%
Euclid	Founder of Euclidean geometry, he also introduced Euclidean division	14%
Johannes Gutenberg	Invented the printing press	14%
Richard Feynman	Worked on quantum electrodynamics, quarks and superfluid helium	14%
Alexander Graham Bell	Invented the telephone	0%
Robert Boyle	One of the fathers of modern chemistry	0%