Greatest Scientific Discoveries - Statistics

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