| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Avogadro's law of gases; Avogadro's number | Amedeo Avogadro | 86%
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| Inventor of the Periodic Table | Dmitri Mendeleev | 84%
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| Pioneers in field of radioactivity | Marie & Pierre Curie | 84%
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| Invention of dynamite; Nobel prizes | Alfred Nobel | 81%
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| Boyle's law on gases | Robert Boyle | 81%
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| Hooke's law of elasticity | Robert Hooke | 81%
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| Discovery of the atomic nucleus | Ernest Rutherford | 78%
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| Gay-Lussac's law | Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac | 70%
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| Inventor of the Bunsen burner | Robert Bunsen | 68%
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| Discovery of the composition of water | Antoine Lavoisier | 62%
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| Modern atomic theory | John Dalton | 62%
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| Discovery of electromagnetic induction | Michael Faraday | 59%
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| Most influential figure in early Western science | Aristotle | 54%
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| Nitrogen fixation for fertilizers; Chemical weapons | Fritz Haber | 54%
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| Discovery of electrons | J.J. Thomson | 51%
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| Construction of first nuclear reactor | Enrico Fermi | 49%
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| Developed theory of covalent bonding | Linus Pauling | 49%
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| 100-degree scale thermometer | Anders Celsius | 46%
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| Atomic theory of the Universe | Democritus | 46%
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| Identification of hydrogen gas | Henry Cavendish | 46%
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| Promotion of experimental scientific method | Roger Bacon | 46%
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| Pioneer of electrolysis | Humphry Davy | 38%
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| Pioneer in field of radioactivity | Henri Becquerel | 35%
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| Theory of ideas or forms | Plato | 32%
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| Discovery of transuranium elements | Glenn Seaborg | 30%
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| Invention of the particle accelerator | Ernest O. Lawrence | 27%
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| Discovery of the citric acid cycle | Hans Krebs | 24%
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| Discovery of electromagnetism | Hans Christion Orsted | 19%
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| Discovery of chirality | Louis Pasteur | 19%
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| Atomic weights; Modern chemical symbols | Jons Jakob Berzelius | 16%
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| Development of the theory of atomism | Leucippus | 16%
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| Coinventor of calorimeter | Pierre-Simon Laplace | 16%
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| Invention of nylon | Wallace Carothers | 16%
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| Invention of the hydrometer | Hypatia of Alexandria | 14%
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| Discovery of carbon dioxide | Joseph Black | 14%
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| Discovery of uranium and other elements | Martin Klaproth | 14%
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| Ionic theory of reactions | Svante Arrhenius | 14%
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| Invention of the bain-marie | Mary the Jewess | 11%
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| Development of Avogadro's law on molecular weights | Stanislao Cannizzaro | 8%
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