Statistics for 40 People in Science that Everyone Should Know

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Discovered Evolution	Charles Darwin	97%
Established Three Laws of Motion	Isaac Newton	97%
Created the Theory of Relativity	Albert Einstein	96%
Created the First Telescope	Galileo Galilei	90%
Conducted Much Research on Radiation with her Husband	Marie Curie	86%
Invented the Household Lightbulb	Thomas Edison	85%
Invented the Telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	82%
Inventors of the Airplane	Orville Wright	77%
	Wilbur Wright	77%
Proved that the Earth orbits the Sun	Nicolas Copernicus	74%
Famously discovered how to find the length of the Hypotenuse	Pythagoras	72%
Created AC Current	Nikola Tesla	70%
Famous for developing new theories of Therapy called Psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	69%
Invented Dynamite	Alfred Nobel	65%
Discovered Penicillin	Alexander Fleming	64%
Proved that Black Holes emit Radiation	Stephen Hawking	58%
Known for his "Cat" Thought Experiment	Erwin Schrodinger	56%
Father of Genetics	Gregor Mendel	55%
Created an Oath for Doctors	Hippocrates	55%
Most Famous "Father of the Atomic Bomb"	Robert Oppenheimer	54%
Father of Western Philosophy	Aristotle	51%
Ancient Greek "Father of Geometry"	Euclid	50%
Famous for discovering the structure of DNA	James Watson	46%
Studied Chimpanzees in Tanzania	Jane Goodall	43%
Created the Modern Steam Engine	James Watt	41%
Created the first model of the Atom	Niels Bohr	41%
Invented the Telegraph	Samuel Morse	38%
Figured out how to find the Volume of a Sphere and Area of a Circle	Archimedes	36%
Figured out the Principles of the Motion of Planets	Johannes Kepler	35%
Created the Polio Vaccine	Jonas Salk	33%
Created the First Vaccines	Louis Pasteur	30%
Discovered how Electromagnetism Works	Michael Faraday	27%
Supported the Growth of Peanuts to save Soil Fertility	George Washington Carver	19%
Created the Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation	James Maxwell	19%
Pioneered Quantum Mechanics	Werner Heisenberg	18%
Father of the Scientific Method	Francis Bacon	17%
Famously wrote "Silent Spring" saving many bird species	Rachel Carson	17%
Came up with modern Atom Theory	John Dalton	12%
Came up with Continental Drift	Alfred Wegener	9%
Founder of Cell Theory	Robert Hooke	7%