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created the first vaccines for rabies and anthrax, discovered microbial fermentation
Jonas Salk
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
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Founder of electromagnetism, SI unit of electricity/ current is named after him
James Watt
Andre Ampere
Einstein
Michael Faraday
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"The Wizard of Menlo Park", applied the principle of mass production, motion picture camera
Graham bell
Einstein
Thomas Edison
Eli Whitney
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X-ray photographs, showing the interiors of metal objects and the bones in his wife's hand
Albert Einstein
Andre Ampere
Wilhelm Rontgen
Pierce Currie
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Wrote the book "Silent Spring" (1962), about the dangers of pesticides in the food chain,
William Harvey
Albert Einstein
Racheal Carson
James John Audoborn
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Color blind physicist, worked in development of atomic theory
Linus Pauling
Andre Ampere
John Dalton
Edward Teller
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Improved Newcomen steam engine, leading to industrial revolution.
Michael Faraday
Robert Fulton
Eli Whitney
James Watt
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First woman to receive Nobel prize, coined the term "radioactivity”,
Florence Nightengale
Racheal Carson
Marie Curie
Sally Ride
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Physician who realized that dairymaids who had contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox.
Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
William Harvey
Louis Pasteur
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German, won Nobel prize for discovery of law of photoelectric effect. Relativity & quantum
Isaac Newton
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Sir Henry Cavendish
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Hungarian born, known for nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy and surface physics.
Einstein
Sir Humphrey Davy
Edward Teller
Carlos Linnaeus
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Telescopic confirmation of phases of Venus & improved military compass
Edward Powell Hubble
Newton
Einstein
Galileo
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created more than 325 products from the peanut legume, helping to create demand for it.
George Washington Carver
George Washington
Carlos Linnaeus
Eli Whitney
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electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis- basis of electric motor.
Albert Einstein
Andre Ampere
Michael Faraday
James Watt
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Pioneer of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. received 2 Nobel prizes
Joseph Priestly
Marie Curie
Einstein
Linus Pauling
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Founding Fathers of the United States, famous for theories related to electricity
James Watt
Andre Ampere
Antoine Lavoisier
Benjamin Franklin
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Proved that water is a compound & air is a mixture, determined the gravitational constant G.
Sir Henry Cavendish
Albert Einstein
Joseph Priestly
Isaac Newton
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Proved that recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth,
Galileo
Henry cavendish
Edward Powell Hubble
Einstein
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Discovered a gas and called it, “inflammable air", which formed water on combustion.
Sir Henry Cavendish
Edward Teller
Antoine Lavoisier
Sir Humphrey Davy
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Cornish chemist, discovered the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine, and other metals.
Henry Cavendish
Sir Humphrey Davy
John Dalton
Antoine Lavoisier
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Author of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Mathematician who developed calculus.
Isaac Newton
Edward Jenner
Robert Goddard
Einstein
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Microbiologist, discovered unicellular organisms, bacteria, RBC, blood in capillaries
Edward Jenner
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
Robert Koch
Louis Pasteur
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laws of planetary motion, Astronomia nova,Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican astronomy
Johann Kepler
Edward Powell Hubble
Sir Isaac Newton
Galileo
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During scientific renaissance, improved telescope and supported Copernicanism.
Edward Powell Hubbel
Edward Jenner
Isaac Newton
Galileo
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English geologist, proposed the Theory of natural selection and selective breeding
Charles Darwin
Gregor Mendel
James Audubon
Newton
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German microbiologist. Discovered the causative agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax.
Jonas Salk
Robert Koch
Edward Jenner
Louis Pasteur
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laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature.
Charles Darwin
Carolus Linnaeus
Gregor Mendel
Einstein
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the first to invent aircraft controls that made fixed-wing powered flight possible.
James Watt
Graham Bell
Robert Fulton
Wilbur Wright