98 mathematicians and physicists - Statistics

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Hint	Lifespan	Origin	Answer	% Correct
"In a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides."	570 BCE – 495 BCE	Greek	Pythagoras	92%
"Energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light squared."	1879 – 1955	German / American	Albert Einstein	90%
Was first to discover laws of motion and gravity.	1643 – 1727	English	Isaac Newton	89%
The "father of geometry".	300 BCE	Greek	Euclid	86%
"An object submerged in a fluid experiences an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces."	287 BCE – 212 BCE	Greek	Archimedes	82%
The "father of atomic bomb".	1904 – 1967	American	J. Robert Oppenheimer	82%
One of the most important constants is named after him.	1707 – 1783	Swiss	Leonhard Euler	81%
First to win two Nobel Prizes.	1867 – 1934	Polish / French	Marie Curie	78%
Discovered that black holes emit radiation.	1942 – 2018	British	Stephen Hawking	78%
Made a thought experiment involving a cat.	1887 – 1961	Austrian	Erwin Schrödinger	76%
"Pioneered research on radioactivity alongside his wife."	1859 – 1906	French	Pierre Curie	76%
The father of "modern science" and scientific method.	1564 – 1642	Italian	Galileo Galilei	74%
Proposed a model of atom.	1885 – 1962	Danish	Niels Bohr	73%
Contributed to development of AC electrical systems.	1856 – 1943	Serbian / American	Nikola Tesla	73%
The "Prince of Mathematicians".	1777 – 1855	German	Carl Friedrich Gauss	72%
Developed present day notation for the differential and integral calculus.	1646 – 1716	German	Gottfried Leibniz	71%
Discovered laws of planetary motion.	1571 – 1630	German	Johannes Kepler	70%
Formulated the heliocentric model of the solar system.	1473 – 1543	Polish	Nicolaus Copernicus	70%
Developed a coordinate system that laid the foundation for analytical geometry.	1596 – 1650	French	Rene Descartes	67%
"It is impossible to simultaneously know the exact position and exact momentum of a particle. The more precisely one of these properties is known, the less precisely the other can be known."	1901 – 1976	German	Werner Heisenberg	67%
Provided the concept that describes fundamental model of computations.	1912 – 1954	British	Alan Turing	66%
Invented international system of absolute temperature.	1824 – 1907	British (Scottish)	(William Thomson) Lord Kelvin	66%
Introduced the sequence of in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones.	c. 1170 – c. 1250	Italian	Fibonacci	65%
"There are no three positive integers that can satisfy the equation x^n+y^n=z^n when n is greater than 2."	1601 – 1665	French	Pierre de Fermat	63%
The founder of electromagnetic theory.	1831 – 1879	Scottish	James Maxwell	62%
Developed theory of four elements which dominated until other discoveries made by other great scientists.	384 BCE – 322 BCE	Greek	Aristotle	61%
Put forward a hypothesis on zeta function that stays unproved till these days.	1826 – 1866	German	Bernhard Riemann	61%
The Man Who Knew Infinity.	1887 – 1920	Indian	Srinivasa Ramanujan	61%
Creator of quantum theory.	1858 – 1947	German	Max Planck	58%
Invented battery.	1745 – 1827	Italian	Alessandro Volta	57%
The first to split the atom.	1901 – 1954	Italian / American	Enrico Fermi	56%
"An increase in the speed of a parcel of fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in either the pressure or the height above a datum."	1700 – 1782	Swiss	Daniel Bernoulli	54%
Discovered a general method to determine evolutes of a curve as the envelope of its circles of curvature.	1654 – 1705	Swiss	Jacob Bernoulli	54%
Summed series, and discovered addition theorems for trigonometric and hyperbolic functions using the differential equations they satisfy.	1667 – 1748	Swiss	Johann Bernoulli	54%
Greatest experimental physicist.	1791 – 1867	English	Michael Faraday	54%
Proved the equality of mixed second-order partial derivatives.	1687 – 1759	Swiss	Nicolaus Bernoulli	54%
Discovered particle that gives mass to other fundamental particles.	1929 – 2024	British	Peter Higgs	53%
23 unsolved problems.	1862 – 1943	German	David Hilbert	52%
The "father of nuclear physics".	1871 – 1937	New Zealand	Ernest Rutherford	52%
"A periodic signal is composed of a superposition of pure sine waves, with suitably chosen amplitudes and phases, whose frequencies are harmonics of the fundamental frequency of the signal."	1768 – 1830	French	Joseph Fourier	51%
Graphically represented interaction of light and matter.	1918 – 1988	American	Richard Feynman	51%
"If a triangle is inscribed in a circle and one of its sides is the diameter of the circle, then the angle opposite that side is a right angle."	624 BCE – 546 BCE	Greek	Thales	51%
The electric current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.	1789 – 1854	German	Georg Ohm	50%
Found special-case solution for the three body problem.	1736 – 1813	Italian / French	Joseph-Louis Lagrange	50%
Known for his experiments with electricity.	1706 – 1790	American	Benjamin Franklin	48%
Formulated series that express functions as infinite sums of their derivatives.	1685 – 1731	English	Brook Taylor	48%
Discovered X-rays.	1845 – 1923	German	Wilhelm Röntgen	48%
"An all-knowing intellect which, if it knows the precise location and momentum of every atom in the universe at a given time, could predict the future and retrodict the past with absolute certainty."	1749 – 1827	French	Pierre-Simon Laplace	47%
Found galaxies other than Milky Way.	1889 – 1953	American	Edwin Hubble	46%
True / False.	1815 – 1864	English	George Boole	46%
The "father of electrodynamics".	1775 – 1836	French	Andre-Marie Ampere	45%
One of the founders of probability theory.	1623 – 1662	French	Blaise Pascal	44%
"Every three-dimensional topological manifold which is closed, connected, and has trivial fundamental group is homeomorphic to the three-dimensional sphere."	1854 – 1912	French	Henri Poincare	43%
Outlined the design for modern electronic computers.	1903 – 1957	Hungarian / American	John von Neumann	43%
"In any consistent formal system that is capable of expressing basic arithmetic, there are true statements that cannot be proven within the system."	1906 – 1978	Austrian / American	Kurt Gödel	43%
Formalized and proved key theorems of calculus.	1789 – 1857	French	Augustin-Louis Cauchy	41%
One of the earliest hypotheses about atoms.	460 BCE – 370 BCE	Greek	Democritus	41%
Founded abstract algebra and group theory.	1811 – 1832	French	Evariste Galois	41%
Solved one of the Millennium Prize problems.	Born 1966	Russian	Grigori Perelman	41%
One of the founders of set theory.	1845 – 1918	German	Georg Cantor	40%
One of the founders of statistical mechanics.	1844 – 1906	Austrian	Ludwig Boltzmann	40%
Formulated a fully relativistic quantum theory.	1902 – 1984	British	Paul Dirac	39%
Discovered the law describing the relationship between pressure and volume of confined gas.	1627 – 1691	Irish	Robert Boyle	39%
Introduced atomic theory into chemistry.	1766 – 1844	British	John Dalton	38%
Invented quaternions.	1805 – 1865	Irish	William Rowan Hamilton	37%
Co-author of Principia Mathematica.	1872 – 1970	British	Bertrand Russell	34%
Established that the various types of energy are the same.	1818 – 1889	English	James Joule	34%
The "father of hydrogen bomb".	1908 – 2003	Hungarian / American	Edward Teller	33%
Calculated Earth's diameter using stick and the Sun.	276 BCE – 194 BCE	Greek	Eratosthenes	33%
Proved the existence of electromagnetic waves.	1857 – 1894	German	Heinrich Hertz	33%
Invented modern microscope.	1635 – 1703	English	Robert Hooke	32%
Established a mathematical basis for probability inferenceю	1702 – 1761	British	Thomas Bayes	32%
Introduced systematic equations of quadratic equations.	c. 780 CE – c. 850 CE	Persian	al-Khwarizmi	30%
"In a cyclic quadrilateral (a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle), the product of the lengths of the diagonals is equal to the sum of the products of the lengths of the opposite sides."	c. 100 CE – c. 170 CE	Greek	Claudius Ptolemy	30%
For a triangle with side lengths a, b, and c, and semi-perimeter s (which is half of the perimeter), the area can be found by taking the square root of s multiplied by (s minus a), (s minus b), and (s minus c).	c. 10 CE – c. 70 CE	Greek	Heron	30%
Known for his pioneering work in the theory of elliptic functions and for proving the insolvability of the general quintic equation by radicals.	1802 – 1829	Norwegian	Niels Henrik Abel	30%
Graphically described black holes through relativity theory.	Born 1931	British	Roger Penrose	30%
Clarified connections between electricity, light and magnetism.	1853 – 1928	Dutch	Hendrik Lorentz	28%
Published the solution for the cubic equation.	1501 – 1576	Italian	Gerolamo Cardano	26%
The "father of modern analysis".	1815 – 1897	German	Karl Weierstrass	25%
Discovered the solution for the cubic equation.	1500 – 1557	Italian	Nicolo Tartaglia	24%
	1894 – 1974	Indian	Satyendra Nath Bose	24%
The "father of algebra".	c. 201 CE – c. 285 CE	Greek	Diophantus	23%
Measured Earth's density.	1731 – 1810	British	Henry Cavendish	23%
Known for his work in probability theory.	1781 – 1840	French	Siméon Denis Poisson	23%
Сontributed to the study of elliptic integrals, reducing many intractable integrals to problems of finding arcs for hyperbolas.	1698 – 1746	Scottish	Colin Maclaurin	22%
Known for his work on conic sections.	c. 262 BCE – c. 190 BCE	Greek	Apollonius	16%
Proved that the Earth rotates on its axis.	1819 – 1868	French	Léon Foucault	16%
The "father of Russian science".	1711 – 1765	Russian	Mikhail Lomonosov	16%
Devised an electromagnetic telegraph.	1804 – 1891	German	Wilhelm Eduard Weber	16%
Independently developed non-Euclidean geometry.	1792 – 1856	Russian	Nikolai Lobachevsky	15%
The "father of modern optics".	965 – 1040	Arabic	Ibn al-Haytham	14%
“If more than n rabbits must be put into n hutches, then at least in one hutch there will be more than one (so, at least 2) rabbits.”	1805 – 1859	German	Dirichlet	13%
"For any continuous function f mapping a nonempty compact convex set to itself, there is a point x such that f(x)=x."	1881 – 1966	Dutch	L.E.J. Brouwer	13%
"If a line intersects the sides of a triangle (or their extensions), the product of the ratios of the segments it divides each side into is equal to -1."	70 CE – c. 140 CE	Greek	Menelaus	13%
The "father of modern geodesy".	973 – 1048	Persian	Al-Biruni	12%
One of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.	1802 – 1860	Hungarian	János Bolyai	12%
Provided basic analytical tools for mathematical physics.	1752 – 1833	French	Adrien-Marie Legendre	11%

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