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He is a meteorologist and geophysicist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
Erwin Chargaff
Giovanni Cassini
Alfred Wegener
Jaques Cousteau
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He is famous for his laws of physics and a key figure in the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century.
William Smith
Claudius Ptolemy
Ronald Fisher
Isaac Newton
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He contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.
Michael Faraday
Pierre Curie
Robert Boyle
Anders Cesius
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She is known for the discovery of the molecular structures of DNA and RNA.
Sophie Germain
Rachel Carson
Jane Goodall
Rosalind Franklin
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He discovered the periodic law and created the periodic table of elements.
Enrico Fermi
William Harvey
Pierre Laplace
Dmitri Mendeleev
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He created the world's first industrial research laboratory and credited for the invention of light bulb and phonograph.
Leonard Euler
Henry Ford
John Eccles
Thomas Edison
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He is notable for the formulation of electromagnetic theory which showed that light was electromagnetic radiation.
William Thomson
John Von Neumann
James Clerk Maxwell
Carolus Linnaeus
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He is known as the father of nuclear physics and was the central figure in the study of radioactivity.
Henry Cavendish
Jean Andre Deluc
Antoine Lavoisier
Ernest Rutherford
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He is known for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way.
Charles Darwin
Charles Messeir
Stephen Hawking
Edwin Hubble
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He developed the general theory of relativity and is one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century.
Thomas Burnet
Blaise Pascal
Albert Einstein
Noam Chomsky
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He made a significant contribution in the field of geometry, probability, astronomy, number theory and electromagnetism.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Andre Marie Ampere
Alexander Graham Bell
James Prescott Joule
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He is pioneer in the development of modern atomic theory and the first person to study colour blindness.
Sigmund Freud
Robert Brown
John Eccles
John Dalton
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He is a doctor and bacteriologist who discovered penicillin and received the Nobel Prize in 1945.
Pierre de Fermat
Edward Jenner
Luigi Galvani
Alexander Fleming
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He is well-known for his improvements in the steam engine.
George Ohm
Robert Hooke
Charles Babbage
James Watt
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He was awarded a 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron.
Daniel Bernoulli
James Chadwick
Alfred Binet
Gottfried Leibniz
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He is known for discovering food preparation process known as pasteurisation and developing vaccines for anthrax.
B. F. Skinner
Louis Pasteur
Robert Koch
William Morton
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He is known for his three major laws of planetary motion and is a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution.
Luis Alvarez
Johannes Kepler
Nikola Tesla
John Michell
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He is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discovery of methane.
Roger Bacon
James Watson
Alessandro Volta
Joseph Priestley
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She discovered polonium and radium, did pioneering research on radioactivity and was the first woman to win Nobel Prize.
Marie Curie
Elizabeth Blackwell
Maria Mitchell
Caroline Herschel
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He made a huge contribution to the understanding of atomic structure and quantum theory.
Neils Bohr
Alfred Nobel
John Locke
Jean Piaget
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He is an Australian monk and the founder of the modern science of genetics who discovered the principles of heredity.
William Harvey
Luigi Galvani
Gregor Mendel
Thomas Gold
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He is the father of modern science who contributed to the science of motion, astronomy, strength of material etc.
Heinritch Hertz
William Hopkins
Galileo Galilei
Blaise Pascal
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He is famous for the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.
Amadeo Avogardo
Benjamin Franklin
Joseph John Thomson
Francis Collins
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He established the concept of a heliocentric solar system.
Rene Descartes
Nicolaus Copernicus
Andre Marie Ampere
Leonardo Pisano
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He experimentally demonstrated that the major properties of an element are determined by the atomic number.
William Perkin
Karl Popper
Henry Moseley
Democritus