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Notable figures in scientific history. Play Famous Scientists trivia solo to sharpen your knowledge, or challenge a friend head-to-head in Trivia Tango — every question comes with an explanation so you learn as you play. Questions span every level, from easy warm-ups to expert-level stumpers, so there's a real challenge here however much you already know.
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This scientist developed the theory of general relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect.
Difficulty: Easy- Max Planck
- Werner Heisenberg
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
This French chemist developed the germ theory of disease, created vaccines for rabies and anthrax, and invented a heat treatment to make beverages safer.
Difficulty: Medium- Louis Pasteur
- Joseph Lister
- Robert Koch
- Edward Jenner
This French physicist discovered natural radioactivity by accidentally leaving uranium salts near photographic plates.
Difficulty: Hard- Pierre Curie
- Paul Villard
- Jean Perrin
- Henri Becquerel
Watching an apple fall supposedly inspired this English scientist to formulate the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Difficulty: Easy- Johannes Kepler
- Robert Hooke
- Isaac Newton
- Galileo Galilei
This English country doctor pioneered vaccination by using cowpox material to protect a boy from smallpox in 1796.
Difficulty: Medium- Joseph Lister
- Edward Jenner
- Louis Pasteur
- John Snow
This German physicist formulated the thermodynamic definition of entropy and stated that heat cannot spontaneously flow from cold to hot.
Difficulty: Hard- James Prescott Joule
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- Rudolf Clausius
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.
Difficulty: Easy- Marie Curie
- Lise Meitner
- Rosalind Franklin
- Dorothy Hodgkin
This British biophysicist built the first DNA double helix model with Watson at Cambridge, sharing the 1962 Nobel Prize.
Difficulty: Medium- Francis Crick
- Linus Pauling
- James Watson
- Maurice Wilkins
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