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Scientists by Achievement #2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 74 times
- The average score is 13 of 25
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| Serbian-American inventor who developed an AC induction motor | Nikola Tesla | 93%
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| Invented the lightbulb, famous rival of the answer to question 1 | Thomas Edison | 82%
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| His work on pea plants led him to coin the terms 'dominant' and 'recessive' traits | Gregor Mendel | 75%
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| Discovered that wires carrying electric current can attract and repel magnetically; the SI unit of electrical current is named after him | André-Marie Ampère | 71%
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| The unit of frequency is named after this physicist who proved the existence of EM waves | Heinrich Hertz | 68%
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| Famous for his three laws of planetary motion | Johannes Kepler | 68%
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| Founder of quantum mechanics who introduced quantisation of angular momentum | Niels Bohr | 68%
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| Polymath who invented the telegraph and Morse code | Samuel Morse | 68%
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| Developed the world's first nuclear reactor; particles with half-integer spin are named after him | Enrico Fermi | 61%
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| First proposed a model of the atom like a 'solar system' where tiny electrons orbit a positive nucleus | Ernest Rutherford | 61%
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| Cambridge researchers who suggested the double-helix structure of DNA | James Watson / Francis Crick | 61%
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| Chemist most noted for his discovery of the role played by oxygen in combustion | Antoine Lavoisier | 57%
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| The SI unit of radioactivity is named after this scientist | Henri Becquerel | 54%
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| The first computer programmer; collaborated with Charles Babbage | Ada Lovelace | 50%
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| Credited with the discovery of atoms | John Dalton | 50%
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| Discovered the first of the gas laws, relating a gas's pressure to its volume | Robert Boyle | 50%
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| Discovered the density of DNA and established its helical form of the molecule | Rosalind Franklin | 43%
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| His law states that the tension in a spring is directly proportional to the length it is stretched to | Robert Hooke | 39%
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| Discovered hydrogen | Henry Cavendish | 36%
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| Best known for his inverse-square law of electrostatic attraction and repulsion | Charles-Augustin de Coulomb | 25%
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| Discovered the positron | Carl Anderson | 21%
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| The constant named after this physicist is equal to 1.38 x 10⁻²³ J/K | Ludwig Boltzmann | 21%
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| Discovered the element protactinium and nuclear fission | Lise Meitner | 14%
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| Discovered pulsars | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | 7%
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| German crystallographer and pioneer in XRD after whom a sphere in reciprocal space is named | Paul Peter Ewald | 7%
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