Scientists/Discoveries

Question 1

Jonas Salk

Answer 1

Invented a vaccine for polio

Question 2

Edward Jenner

Answer 2

Invented the first vaccine (smallpox)

Question 3

J.J. Thomson

Answer 3

Discovered the electron (first subatomic particle discovered)
*plum pudding model

Question 4

Francis Aston

Answer 4

Invented the mass spectrometer

Question 5

Ernest Rutherford

Answer 5

Discovered the nucleus and the proton

Gold foil experiment

Question 6

James Chadwick

Answer 6

Discovered the neutron

Question 7

Niels Bohr

Answer 7

Atomic model of electrons in orbital shells

Question 8

Democritus

Answer 8

First theorizes the atom

Actually his mentor, Leucippus, did

Question 9

Mendeleev

Answer 9

Created the periodic table

Question 10

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 10

Father of taxonomy

Invented binomial nomenclature

Question 11

Charles Darwin

Answer 11

If u dont know this u are sad

Also he wrote “On the Origin of Species”

Question 12

Lamark

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Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Ex: (giraffes stretch their necks over their life and pass it down to the immediately following generation)

Question 13

Alfred Russel Wallace

Answer 13

Discovered basically the same stuff as Darwin just like a few years later. Urged Darwin to publish his findings

Question 14

John Dalton

Answer 14

Next guy up in the atomic theory after Democritus

Question 15

Robert Boyle

Answer 15

Boyle’s law

Temperature, pressure, and volume of gases formula thing

Question 16

de Broglie

Answer 16

Wave particle duality

Question 17

Pasteur

Answer 17

Pasteurization
Vaccination
Germ theory

Question 18

Marie Curie

Answer 18

Radioactivity

Question 19

Robert Hooke

Answer 19

Discovered the cell

Question 20

Leeuwhenhoek

Answer 20

Animolecules

Perfection of microscope

Question 21

Mosely

Answer 21

X-ray spectroscopy

Question 22

Roentgen

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Discovered x-rays

Question 23

Stoney

Answer 23

Electricity is electrons

Question 24

Watson & Crick

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DNA is a double helix

Question 25

Wilkens & Franklin

Answer 25

Also helped with dna

Question 26

Volta

Answer 26

Discovered the battery

Question 27

Maxwell

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Father of physics

Electromagnetism

Question 28

Newton

Answer 28

Inertia
Laws of motion
Calculus

Question 29

Einstein

Answer 29

Theories of relativity

Photoelectric effect

Question 30

Planck

Answer 30

Black body radiation

Question 31

Faraday

Answer 31

Electryolysis

Question 32

Alexander Fleming

Answer 32

Discovered penicillin