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Best known as an artist, this person was also an inventor and studied science.
Leonardo da Vinci
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Isaac Newton
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She was the first Hispanic woman in space
Marie Curie
Rachel Carson
Ellen Ochoa
Sally Ride
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A research scientist who saved many lives with the formation of a vaccines and Pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
Neil Armstrong
Jonas Salk
Rachel Carson
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This inventor made many devices including the motion picture camera and the phonograph.
Thomas Edison
Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
Ben Franklin
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A famous mathematician, astronomer and physicist; known for his study of motion and gravity
Isaac Newton
Ben Franklin
Neil Armstrong
Albert Einstein
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This person is best known for her 55 year study of chimpanzees.
Sally Ride
Marie Curie
Jane Goodall
Eleanor Roosevelt
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This scientist won a Nobel prize in Physics
Newton
Darwin
Armstrong
Einstein
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This scientist also an inventor & engineer and given credit for patenting the first telephone.
Neil Armstrong
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Galileo
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This scientist was best known for his contributions to the science of evolution
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Charles Darwin
Isaac Newton
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An Italian scientist who made observations that are foundation to modern physics and astronomy
Galileo
Rachel Carson
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
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These two brothers paved the way for modern flight.
Isaac and Albert
The Wright Brothers
The Grimm Brothers
Edison and Bell
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This individual's amazing feat was out of this world! (literally)
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Jacques Cousteau
Neil Armstrong
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An inventor who contributed to the development of the alternating-current electrical system.
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Sally Ride
Rachel Carson
Jane Goodall
Marie Curie
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This founding father invented many things, from the lightning rod, to bifocals, and swim fins
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
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She created the basics of computer coding years before computers
Lovelace
Franklin
Newton
Einstein
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A famous inventor who did important work in communication for the deaf.
Ben Franklin
Thomas Edison
Neil Armstrong
Alexander Graham Bell
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This scientist wrote Silent Spring which warned of the dangers of misusing pesticides.
Thomas Edison
Rachel Carson
Galileo
Marie Curie