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Name Dropping #2: Scientists - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 206 times
- The average score is 17 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Extra Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marie | radioactivity research; discovery of polonium and radium (1867-1934) | Curie | 99%
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| Nikola | alternating current; high-voltage, high-frequency power experiments (1856-1943) | Tesla | 99%
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| Albert | theories of special and general relativity (1879-1955) | Einstein | 98%
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| Isaac | universal gravitation; laws of motion; binomial series; law of cooling (1642-1726/27) | Newton | 98%
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| Galileo | father of modern science; first to identify moons of other planets; stated principle of inertia (1564-1642) | Galilei | 97%
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| Thomas | electric power generation; sound recording; motion picture camera (1847-1931) | Edison | 96%
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| Stephen | gravitational singularity; black hole radiation; micro black holes (1942-2018) | Hawking | 96%
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| Charles | evolutionary biology; natural selection (1809-1882) | Darwin | 95%
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| Dmitri | periodic table of the chemical elements (1834-1907) | Mendeleev | 94%
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| Niels | atomic structure; quantum theory (1885-1962) | Bohr | 88%
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| Alexander | penicillin; lysozyme (1881-1955) | Fleming | 87%
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| Jane | study of chimpanzees; conservation; animal welfare (1934-2025) | Goodall | 87%
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| Louis | germ theory of disease; rabies, cholera and anthrax vaccines; food preservation process to eliminate pathogens and extend shelf life (1822-1895) | Pasteur | 86%
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| Johannes | laws of planetary motion; sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space; star catalog (1571-1630) | Kepler | 80%
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| Francis | scientific method (1561-1626) | Bacon | 79%
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| Michael | discovered electromagnetic induction; discovered benzene; laws of electrolysis (1791-1867) | Faraday | 77%
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| Ada | mathematics; computing theory (1815-1852) | Lovelace | 74%
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| John | atomic theory; law of partial gas pressures (1766-1844) | Dalton | 70%
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| Rosalind | structure of DNA; structures of viruses; fine structure of coal and graphite (1920-1958) | Franklin | 66%
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| James Clerk | statistical mechanics; fish-eye lens; control theory; coherent system of units; chaos theory; dimensional analysis (1831-1879) | Maxwell | 64%
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