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Greatest Scientific Discoveries - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 823 times
- The average score is 21 of 100
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| General relatvitiy | Mass-energy equivalence | Special relativity | Albert Einstein | 87%
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| Theory of natural selection | Charles Darwin | 85%
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| Calculus | Isaac Newton & Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | 84%
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| Corpuscular theory of light | Universal gravitation | Isaac Newton | 83%
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| Jupiter's moons | Law of falling bodies | Galileo Galilei | 68%
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| DNA is a double helix | James Watson & Francis Crick | 65%
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| Radioactivity | Marie & Pierre Curie | 64%
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| The Heliocentric Model | Nicolaus Copernicus | 64%
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| Rules of heredity | Gregor Mendel | 63%
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| Penicillin | Alexander Fleming | 60%
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| Animal cell division | Walther Flemming | 60%
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| Alternating current | Nikola Tesla | 52%
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| Laws of black hole mechanics | Stephen Hawking | 51%
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| Orbital model of the atom | Niels Bohr | 47%
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| Germ theory of disease | Louis Pasteur | 46%
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| Periodic table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 44%
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| Uncertainty principle | Werner Heisenberg | 40%
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| Positively charged atomic nucleus | Ernest Rutherford | 39%
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| Buoyancy | Archimedes | 38%
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| X-rays | Wilhelm Roentgen | 37%
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| The universe is expanding | Edwin Hubble | 34%
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| Electromagnetic induction | Michael Faraday | 33%
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| Voltaic pile | Alessandro Volta | 32%
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| Elliptical planetary orbits | Johannes Kepler | 32%
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| Quantum theory | Max Planck | 32%
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| Theory of vaccination | Edward Jenner | 27%
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| Computing science | Alan Turing | 26%
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| Classification of species | Carl Linnaeus | 22%
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| Unified model of electromagnetism | James Clerk Maxwell | 22%
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| The electron | J.J. Thomson | 20%
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| Wave theory of light | Robert Hooke & Christiaan Huygens | 20%
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| Law of elasticity | Robert Hooke | 18%
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| World wide web | Tim Berners-Lee | 18%
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| Atomic theory | John Dalton | 16%
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| Classical beam theory | Leonhard Euler & Daniel Bernoulli | 16%
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| Comits orbit the sun | Edmund Halley | 15%
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| Microorganisms | Anton van Leeuwenhoek | 12%
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| The citric acid cycle | Hans Krebs | 12%
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| Blood circulation | William Harvey | 12%
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| Oxygen | Joseph Priestley | 11%
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| Continental drift | Alfred Wegener | 10%
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| The neutron | James Chadwick | 10%
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| Light interference experiments | Thomas Young | 8%
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| Alkali earth metals | Humphry Davy | 6%
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| Atoms combine to form molecules | Amedeo Avogadro | 5%
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| Human anatomy | Andreas Vesalius | 5%
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| Insulin | Frederick Banting | 5%
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| Structure of benzene | Friedrich Kekule | 5%
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| Laetoli footprints | Mary Leaky | 5%
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| Cell nucleus | Robert Brown | 5%
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| Amino acids in simulated "primordial soup" | Stanley Miller & Harold C. Urey | 5%
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| Background microwave radiation | Arno Penzias & Robert Wilson | 4%
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| Equations of viscous fluid motion | Claude-Louis Navier & George Gabriel Stokes | 4%
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| Classic probability theory | Pierre-Simon Laplace | 4%
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| Genes are located on chromosomes | Thomas Hunt Morgan | 4%
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| Asteroid theory of extinction | Walter Alvarez | 4%
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| Milky Way's a giant disk of stars | William Herschel | 4%
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| Some genes can "jump" | Barbara McClintock | 3%
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| Australopithecis Afarensis ("Lucy") | Donald Johanson | 3%
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| Archaea | Carl Woese | 2%
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| Earth's circumference | Erastothenes | 2%
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| Sulfa drugs | Gerhard Domagk | 2%
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| Seafloor spreading | Harry Hess | 2%
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| Blood groups | Karl Landsteiner | 2%
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| Fullerenes | Robert Curl, Harold Kroto, Rick Smalley | 2%
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| Human retrovirus HIV | Robert Gallo & Luc Montagnier | 2%
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| Cosmic rays | Victor Hess | 2%
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| DNA polymorphism | Alec Jeffreys | 1%
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| RNA interference | Andrew Fire & Craig Mello | 1%
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| Modern probability theory | Andrey Kolmogorov | 1%
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| Sex cells | August Weismann | 1%
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| Reversals of Earth's magnetic field | Bernard Brunhes | 1%
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| Radiometric dating | Bertram Boltwood | 1%
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| Ecosystems around deep-sea vents | Bob Ballard | 1%
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| The Burgess Shale | Charles Walcott | 1%
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| Anaesthesia | Crawford Long | 1%
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| Plant cell division | Eduard Strasburger | 1%
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| Internal combustion engine | Etienne Lenoir | 1%
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| Vitamins | Frederick Hopkins | 1%
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| Synthesis of urea | Friedrich Woehler | 1%
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| Genes control biochemical events | George Beadle & Edward Tatum | 1%
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| Atomic spectra | Gustav Kirchoff & Robert Bunsen | 1%
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| Oncogenes | Harold Varmus & Michael Bishop | 1%
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| Earth's solid inner core | Inge Lehmann | 1%
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| Photosynthesis | Jan Ingenhousz | 1%
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| Plastic | John Wesley Hyatt | 1%
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| Troposphere and stratosphere | Leon Teisserenc de Bort | 1%
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| Toumai skull | Michel Brunet | 1%
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| Periodic ice ages | Miultin Milankovitch | 1%
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| Cholesterol's role in heart disease | Nikolai Anichkov | 1%
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| DNA carries genetic information | Oswald Avery | 1%
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| Earth's liquid core | Richard Oldham | 1%
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| Tissue cultures | Ross Harrison | 1%
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| Hormones | William Bayliss & Ernest Starling | 1%
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| First dinosaur fossils | William Buckland | 1%
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| Electrolysis | William Nicholson, Anthony Carlisle, Johann Wilhelm Ritter | 1%
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