Science counts

Who laid the foundations for classical mechanics, explaining the law of gravity and the laws of motion in 1867?

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Antoine Lavoisier

Who created one of the first modern telescopes, and successfully proved the Earth revolves around the Sun?

• Ernest Rutherford

• Galileo Galilei

• James Clerk Maxwell

• Gregor Mendel

Which Polish scientist conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, and won Nobel Prizes in two different sciences?

• Marie Curie

• Otto Hahn

• Lise Meitner

• Rosalind Franklin

Who revolutionised modern physics with his general theory of relativity?

• Galileo Galilei

• Albert Einstein

• Stephen Hawking

• Niels Bohr

Who collected evidence over 20 years and published his conclusions in On the Origin of Species (1859)?

• Nikola Tesla

• Michael Faraday

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

Which Serbian-American is known for his contributions to the design of the alternating current (AC) electricity supply system?

• Nikola Tesla

• Michael Faraday

• Louis Pasteur

• Dmitri Mendeleev

Which Scottish scientist formulated the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation?

• James Prescott Joule

• James Watson

• James Watt

• James Clerk Maxwell

Which English scientist contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry?

• Francis Crick

• Michael Faraday

• Alexander Fleming

• Charles Darwin

The Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovered the world's first antibiotic substance, ___

• Penicillin

• Phlogiston

• Aspirin

• Amoxicillin

Which Russian chemist is commonly considered to be the developer of the modern Periodic Table of the Elements?

• Nikolay Basov

• Pavel Cherenkov

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Dmitri Mendeleev