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%
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