Scientists by Achievement

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Achievement	Scientist
Constructed the first mathematical theory of gravity	Isaac Newton
Invented the periodic table	Dmitri Mendeleev
Discovered X-rays	Wilhelm Roentgen
Invented the 'plum pudding' model of the atom	J.J. Thomson
Wrote a famous set of four equations describing electromagnetism	James Clerk Maxwell
Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of radium and polonium	Marie Curie / Pierre Curie
The number of atoms in a mole is named after this chemist	Amadeo Avogadro
Introduced the concept of particle wavelength	Louis de Broglie
Italian astronomer who telescopically confirmed the phases of Venus	Galileo Galilei
Discovered penicillin	Alexander Fleming
Discovered electromagnetic induction	Michael Faraday
Nobel laureate who invented a process to synthesise ammonia	Fritz Haber / Carl Bosch
Discovered the neutron	James Chadwick
Resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe by considering quanta of electromagnetic radiation	Max Planck
Development of the theory of relativity from which the famous mass-energy equivalence formula arises	Albert Einstein
Formulated the most famous wave equation in quantum mechanics (1926)	Erwin Schrödinger
Known for discovering the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation	Louis Pasteur
Discovered insulin	Frederick Banting
Codebreaker who invented the first computer	Alan Turing
Discovered infrared radiation and the planet Uranus	William Herschel
Discovered the vaccination for smallpox	Edward Jenner
Played the leading role in the development of density functional theory	Walter Kohn
Optical physicist who developed chirped pulse amplification	Donna Strickland / Gerard Mourou
Discovered the process of photosynthesis	Jan Ingenhousz
Determined the 'absolute zero' of temperature	Lord Kelvin