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Scientists by Achievement - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 111 times
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- The average score is 14 of 25
Answer Stats
| Achievement | Scientist | % Correct |
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| Constructed the first mathematical theory of gravity | Isaac Newton | 96%
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| Invented the periodic table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 90%
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| Development of the theory of relativity from which the famous mass-energy equivalence formula arises | Albert Einstein | 88%
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| Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of radium and polonium | Marie Curie / Pierre Curie | 83%
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| Known for discovering the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation | Louis Pasteur | 81%
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| Discovered penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 79%
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| Italian astronomer who telescopically confirmed the phases of Venus | Galileo Galilei | 75%
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| The number of atoms in a mole is named after this chemist | Amadeo Avogadro | 73%
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| Determined the 'absolute zero' of temperature | Lord Kelvin | 73%
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| Codebreaker who invented the first computer | Alan Turing | 69%
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| Wrote a famous set of four equations describing electromagnetism | James Clerk Maxwell | 63%
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| Discovered electromagnetic induction | Michael Faraday | 63%
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| Resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe by considering quanta of electromagnetic radiation | Max Planck | 60%
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| Formulated the most famous wave equation in quantum mechanics (1926) | Erwin Schrödinger | 58%
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| Discovered X-rays | Wilhelm Roentgen | 54%
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| Discovered the vaccination for smallpox | Edward Jenner | 52%
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| Invented the 'plum pudding' model of the atom | J.J. Thomson | 50%
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| Nobel laureate who invented a process to synthesise ammonia | Fritz Haber / Carl Bosch | 46%
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| Discovered the neutron | James Chadwick | 44%
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| Introduced the concept of particle wavelength | Louis de Broglie | 31%
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| Discovered insulin | Frederick Banting | 25%
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| Discovered infrared radiation and the planet Uranus | William Herschel | 25%
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| Played the leading role in the development of density functional theory | Walter Kohn | 10%
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| Discovered the process of photosynthesis | Jan Ingenhousz | 6%
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| Optical physicist who developed chirped pulse amplification | Donna Strickland / Gerard Mourou | 4%
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