Who developed the theory of gravity and the laws of motion?
B.Isaac Newton
Famous Scientists
Test your knowledge of famous scientists and their discoveries. From Newton to Curie to Hawking.
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Who developed the theory of relativity (E = mc²)?
D.Albert Einstein
Who discovered penicillin?
D.Alexander Fleming
Who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
C.Charles Darwin
Marie Curie won Nobel Prizes in which two fields?
A.Physics and Chemistry
Who invented the light bulb (practical incandescent)?
A.Thomas Edison
Who discovered radioactivity (and coined the term)?
D.Marie Curie
Who developed the first successful polio vaccine?
D.Jonas Salk
Who is known for the heliocentric model of the solar system?
D.Nicolaus Copernicus
Who invented the telephone?
C.Alexander Graham Bell
Who discovered the structure of DNA (double helix) with Watson?
A.Francis Crick
Who developed the smallpox vaccine?
A.Edward Jenner
Who is known for the laws of planetary motion?
B.Johannes Kepler
Who invented the telescope and used it for astronomical observations?
C.Galileo Galilei
Who developed the theory of electromagnetism?
A.James Clerk Maxwell
Who proposed the uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics?
A.Werner Heisenberg
Who discovered X-rays?
A.Wilhelm Röntgen
Who developed the periodic table of elements?
A.Dmitri Mendeleev
Who is known for the theory of black holes and wrote A Brief History of Time?
A.Stephen Hawking
Who discovered radium and polonium?
A.Marie Curie
Who formulated the law of universal gravitation?
A.Isaac Newton
Who discovered the neutron?
A.James Chadwick
Who developed the theory of continental drift?
D.Alfred Wegener
Who discovered the electron?
C.J.J. Thomson
Who is known for the discovery of the circulation of blood?
B.William Harvey