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This scientist developed the theory of general relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect.
- Max Planck
- Werner Heisenberg
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
Watching an apple fall supposedly inspired this English scientist to formulate the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
- Johannes Kepler
- Robert Hooke
- Isaac Newton
- Galileo Galilei
This Polish-born physicist became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
- Marie Curie
- Lise Meitner
- Rosalind Franklin
- Dorothy Hodgkin
This naturalist sailed on HMS Beagle and later proposed that species evolve through natural selection.
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Thomas Huxley
- Charles Darwin
This Scottish bacteriologist discovered penicillin by accident when mold contaminated his bacterial cultures in 1928.
- Louis Pasteur
- Robert Koch
- Alexander Fleming
- Joseph Lister
Confined to a wheelchair by ALS, this cosmologist wrote "A Brief History of Time" and made groundbreaking contributions to black hole physics.
- Stephen Hawking
- Kip Thorne
- Carl Sagan
- Roger Penrose
This inventor held over 1,000 patents and created the phonograph, motion picture camera, and practical incandescent light bulb.
- Nikola Tesla
- Alexander Graham Bell
- George Westinghouse
- Thomas Edison
This Italian astronomer improved the telescope and was placed under house arrest for supporting the heliocentric model of the solar system.
- Galileo Galilei
- Johannes Kepler
- Tycho Brahe
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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