Famous Scientists

What was Galileo's most important invention

• Water Pump
• Telescope
• The Big Wheel
• Electricity

Who Created The Heliocentric Theory/Model?

• Nicolus Copernicus
• Nicolaus Copernics
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Nicolus Copernics

This scientist sailed around the world looking for connections between various living organisms.  He spent a lot of his time on the Galapagos Islands looking at turtles and finches.

• Mendel
• Darwin
• Avery
• Hooke

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Michael Faraday

• Dmitri Mendeleev

• Louis Pasteur

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

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

• Penicillin

• Phlogiston

• Aspirin

• Amoxicillin