Famous Inventors and Discoveries

Who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Guglielmo Marconi

What did Marie Curie discover that led to advances in cancer treatment?

• Penicillin

• X-rays

• Radium and Polonium

• Laser Technology

Which female inventor co-created the frequency-hopping technology that laid the foundation for Wi-Fi?

• Grace Hopper

• Ada Lovelace

• Rosalind Franklin

• Hedy Lamarr

Who invented the World Wide Web, making the internet accessible to everyone?

• Bill Gates

• Tim Berners-Lee

• Steve Jobs

• Katherine Johnson

Which woman, known as the “mother of computer programming,” created the first compiler?

• Grace Hopper

• Ada Lovelace

• Stephanie Kwolek

• Rosalind Franklin

Who made critical contributions to discovering DNA’s double helix structure through X-ray crystallography?

• Hedy Lamarr

• Katherine Johnson

• Rosalind Franklin

• Patricia Bath

This NASA mathematician helped plot the trajectories for Apollo and other space missions.

• Marie Curie

• Katherine Johnson

• Grace Hopper

• Shirley Ann Jackson

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Who invented the first vaccine for smallpox?

• Louis Pasteur

• Edward Jenner

• Alexander Fleming

This inventor created the first successful personal computer.

• Steve Wozniak

• Bill Gates

• Mark Zuckerberg

• Alan Turing

Who is known for inventing Kevlar, used in bulletproof vests?

• Patricia Bath

• Stephanie Kwolek

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Martha Coston