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Which scientist is known for developing the periodic table?
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Dmitri Mendeleev
Which scientist is known for the 'Bohr model' of the atom?
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Niels Bohr
Who discovered the polio vaccine?
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Jonas Salk
Who formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation?
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Isaac Newton
Who discovered X-rays?
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
Which scientist first proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Who discovered the double helix structure of DNA?
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James Watson and Francis Crick
Who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone?
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Alexander Graham Bell
Who discovered the structure of DNA?
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James Watson and Francis Crick
Who discovered the first successful smallpox vaccine?
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Edward Jenner
What did Blaise Pascal discover about fluid pressure?
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Pascal's law
Which scientist is known for the 'double-slit experiment'?
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Thomas Young
What did Edwin Hubble discover about the universe?
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It is expanding
Who is credited with the discovery of the neutron?
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James Chadwick
Who discovered the process of fermentation?
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Louis Pasteur
Who discovered penicillin?
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Alexander Fleming
Which scientist is known for the 'Schwarzschild radius' concept?
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Karl Schwarzschild
Which physicist is credited with the discovery of radioactivity?
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Henri Becquerel
What did Hans Christian Oersted discover about electricity and magnetism?
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They are related
What was the name of the ship Charles Darwin traveled on during his famous voyage?
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HMS Beagle
What did Isaac Newton discover?
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Gravity
Who discovered the concept of radio waves?
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Heinrich Hertz
Who discovered the first successful treatment for leprosy?
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Gerhard Armauer Hansen
Who discovered the concept of natural selection?
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Charles Darwin
Which scientist is known for the 'Geiger counter'?
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Hans Geiger
What did Michael Faraday discover about electricity?
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Electromagnetic induction
Which scientist is known for the 'Turing test'?
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Alan Turing
Who developed the smallpox vaccine?
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Edward Jenner
Who discovered the existence of electromagnetic waves?
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James Clerk Maxwell
What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
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Sputnik 1
Who discovered the process of vulcanization?
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Charles Goodyear
Who discovered the theory of relativity?
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Albert Einstein
Who discovered the laws of thermodynamics?
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Sadi Carnot
What did Marie Curie discover?
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Radioactivity
What did John Dalton propose about atoms?
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They combine in simple ratios to form compounds
Who discovered the first successful treatment for yellow fever?
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Walter Reed
Who discovered the planet Neptune?
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Johann Galle
Which scientist is known for the 'photoelectric effect'?
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Albert Einstein
What did William Harvey discover about blood circulation?
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It is circular
Who is credited with the discovery of insulin?
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Frederick Banting
Who discovered the law of conservation of energy?
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Hermann von Helmholtz
Who discovered the greenhouse effect?
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Joseph Fourier
Who discovered the process of electrolysis?
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Michael Faraday
Who discovered the first successful rabies vaccine?
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Louis Pasteur
Who discovered the process of pasteurization?
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Louis Pasteur
Who discovered the first successful treatment for diphtheria?
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Emil von Behring
Who discovered the first successful treatment for syphilis?
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Paul Ehrlich
Who discovered the process of chromatography?
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Mikhail Tsvet
Who discovered the existence of radio waves?
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Heinrich Hertz
Who discovered the process of photosynthesis?
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Jan van Helmont
Which scientist proposed the uncertainty principle?
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Werner Heisenberg
Who discovered the first successful treatment for tetanus?
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Antoine Béchamp
Who discovered the planet Uranus?
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William Herschel
Who discovered the first successful treatment for smallpox?
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Edward Jenner
What did Gregor Mendel discover about genetics?
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The laws of inheritance
Who discovered the first successful treatment for malaria?
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Ronald Ross
Who discovered the first antibiotic, penicillin?
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Alexander Fleming
What did Galileo Galilei discover about Jupiter?
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Its four largest moons
Who discovered the first successful treatment for tuberculosis?
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Robert Koch
Who discovered the first successful treatment for polio?
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Jonas Salk
Who discovered the electron?
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J.J. Thomson
In which year did Albert Einstein publish his theory of general relativity?
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1915
Who discovered the law of conservation of mass?
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Antoine Lavoisier
What is the name of the phenomenon where light is scattered in many directions due to its interaction with particles in the atmosphere?
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Tyndall Effect
Who discovered the laws of motion?
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Isaac Newton
Who discovered the first successful treatment for cholera?
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John Snow
Which scientist is credited with discovering the structure of DNA?
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Francis Crick
Who discovered the process of anesthesia?
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William Morton
Who discovered the principle of buoyancy?
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Archimedes
What did Antoine Lavoisier discover about combustion?
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Oxygen is required for it
Who discovered the first successful treatment for anthrax?
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Louis Pasteur
What did Charles Darwin propose in his theory of evolution?
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Natural selection
Who discovered the radioactive element radium?
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Marie Curie
Who discovered the electron?
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J.J. Thomson
Which scientist is known for the 'cathode ray tube'?
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Karl Ferdinand Braun
Which scientist is credited with discovering oxygen?
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Joseph Priestley
Who is known for the 'Milgram experiment'?
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Stanley Milgram
Who discovered the speed of light?
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Ole Rømer
Who discovered the first antibiotic, sulfonamide?
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Gerhard Domagk
Who discovered the first successful treatment for whooping cough?
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Jules Bordet