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Famous Scientists and Their Discoveries

Match major scientists to the breakthrough that made them famous.

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Household Names
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Major Figures
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For Experts
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Isaac Newton
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Law of universal gravitation
Charles Darwin
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Evolution by natural selection
Albert Einstein
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Theory of relativity
Marie Curie
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Radioactivity
Galileo Galilei
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Moons of Jupiter
Alexander Fleming
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Penicillin
Gregor Mendel
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Laws of inheritance
Nikola Tesla
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Alternating current (AC)
Louis Pasteur
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Germ theory of disease
Niels Bohr
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Bohr model of the atom
Ernest Rutherford
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Atomic nucleus
James Clerk Maxwell
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Electromagnetism equations
Michael Faraday
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Electromagnetic induction
Dmitri Mendeleev
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Periodic table
James Watson and Francis Crick
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DNA double helix structure
Max Planck
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Quantum theory
Werner Heisenberg
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Uncertainty principle
Edwin Hubble
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Expansion of the universe
Johannes Kepler
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Laws of planetary motion
Antoine Lavoisier
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Law of conservation of mass
Robert Hooke
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Cells
Wilhelm Röntgen
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X-rays
Erwin Schrödinger
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Wave equation of quantum mechanics
Rosalind Franklin
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X-ray images of DNA
Henrietta Leavitt
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Cepheid period-luminosity relation
J.J. Thomson
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The electron
James Chadwick
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The neutron
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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Chandrasekhar limit
Barbara McClintock
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Transposons (jumping genes)
Lise Meitner
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Nuclear fission
Paul Dirac
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Antimatter (positron prediction)
Linus Pauling
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Nature of the chemical bond
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Pulsars
Tycho Brahe
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Precise astronomical observations

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