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Niels Bohr
(1885-1962)
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Worked on this World War II nuclear project
Son who received the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics
Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543)
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Primary field of work
Heliocentric model placed this at universe's centre
Attended university in this domestic city
Marie Curie
(1867-1931)
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Husband's first name
Element she first isolated in 1910
Field of her first Nobel Prize in 1903
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
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Ship he voyaged on
Theory described in 'On the Origin of Species'
Role he occupied on his five-year maritime journey
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)
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Famous diagram showing a man with outstretched limbs
His Mona Lisa painting is on display in this museum
Thomas Edison
(1847-1931)
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1877 sound-recording invention
City home to his first power station
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
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What the 'c' in his equation E=mc² stands for
Declined Presidency of this country
Michael Faraday
(1791-1867)
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What a farad measures
Eponymous closed structure he invented in 1836
He isolated and identified this organic compound in 1825
Alexander Fleming
(1881-1955)
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1922 accidental discovery
Type of organism he was studying at the time
Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during this war
Galileo Galilei
(1564-1642)
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1609 invention
Discovered four moons of this planet in 1610
Accused of heresy by this organization in 1632
Stephen Hawking
(1942-2018)
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Professor at this university
Bestselling science book, 'A Brief History of ____'
Calculated that this cosmic object should emit radiation
Antoine Lavoisier
(1743-1794)
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Element he named in 1778
Helped construct this system of measurement
Executed by this method in 1794
Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884)
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Science he founded
Demonstrated inheritance in this plant
He was a friar of this Catholic religious order
Dmitri Mendeleev
(1834-1907)
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Symbol of mendelevium
Credited with inventing this chemistry aid
Element he predicted and called ekaboron
Isaac Newton
(1642-1727)
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Subject of his three laws
Fruit that reputedly inspired his theory of gravity
Shares credit with Leibniz for this invention
Alfred Nobel
(1833-1896)
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1867 mining invention
Brother credited with creating Russian oil industry
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Louis Pasteur
(1822-1895)
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Regarded as a founder of this biological discipline
Ivan Pavlov
(1849-1936)
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Discipline he received a Nobel Prize for in 1904
Nikola Tesla
(1856-1943)
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Eponymous 1891 invention
Made contributions to the design of this current type
The Tesla is the SI derived unit of this
James Watson
(1928-present)
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Partnered this scientist
Discovered the double helix structure of this molecule
Female scientist whose data was used without permission
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