Famous Scientists and Their Discoveries

Who is known as the father of modern physics for his theory of relativity?

• Isaac Newton

• Albert Einstein

• Galileo Galilei

• Niels Bohr

Which scientist is credited with the discovery of penicillin?

• Louis Pasteur

• Alexander Fleming

• Marie Curie

• Gregor Mendel

Who developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation?

• Albert Einstein

• Nikola Tesla

• Isaac Newton

• James Clerk Maxwell

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• Albert Einstein

• Max Planck

• Niels Bohr

• Richard Feynman

Who is famous for the discovery of the structure of DNA along with James Watson?

• Rosalind Franklin

• Francis Crick

• Linus Pauling

• Maurice Wilkins

Which scientist is known for his work on the laws of inheritance?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Thomas Hunt Morgan

• Alfred Russel Wallace

Who is credited with the development of the periodic table?

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Antoine Lavoisier

• John Dalton

• Robert Boyle

Which scientist is known for his contributions to electromagnetism and electrochemistry?

• Michael Faraday

• James Clerk Maxwell

• Heinrich Hertz

• André-Marie Ampère

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Who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system?

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

Which scientist is known for the discovery of radioactivity?

• Marie Curie

• Henri Becquerel

• Wilhelm Röntgen

• Ernest Rutherford

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