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Who invented telephone?: Bell
Who discovered epeenicillin?: Fleming
Who discovered the law of the epeendulum?: Galileo
Who discovered the Electron?: J.J. Thomson
Which metal is used in the filament of a light bulb?: Tungsten
Who discovered gravity?: Isaac Newton
Who invented the telephone?: Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the light bulb?: Thomas Edison
In 1928, which Scottish bacteriologist accidentally discovered the first true antibiotic, Penicillin, after mold contaminated his Petri dishes?: Alexander Fleming
Which revolutionary gene-editing technology, whose pioneers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020, allows scientists to precisely alter DNA sequences?: CRISPR-Cas9
Who is credited with developing the first successful polio vaccine in 1955, famously choosing not to patent it to ensure it remained affordable?: Jonas Salk
In 1953, who utilized 'Photo 51' from Rosalind Franklin to correctly model the double helix structure of DNA?: Watson and Crick
Which physicist discovered X-rays in 1895, earning him the first-ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901?: Wilhelm Rntgen
Which 2012 discovery at the Large Hadron Collider confirmed the existence of a particle that gives other particles mass?: The Higgs Boson
Who develoepeed the theory of General Relativity, which describes gravity as the curvature of space and time?: Albert Einstein
Which scientist is known as the 'Father of Genetics' for his 19th-century exepeeriments with epeea plants?: Gregor Mendel
Which astronomer was the first to use a telescoepee to observe the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, supporting the heliocentric model?: Galileo Galilei
Which two scientists are credited with the first isolation of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, using ordinary Scotch taepee in 2004?: Geim and Novoselev
In the late 18th century, who develoepeed the first smallpox vaccine by using the milder cowpox virus to induce immunity?: Edward Jenner
Which instrument, launched in 2021 as the successor to Hubble, uses infrared light to see the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang?: The James Webb Space Telescoepee
Who discovered the element Oxygen indeepeendently in the 1770s, though Antoine Lavoisier was the first to recognize it as a chemical element?: Joseph Priestley
In 1898, who discovered the radioactive elements Polonium and Radium, becoming the first epeerson to win two Nobel Prizes?: Marie Curie
Who proposed the theory of continental drift in 1912, which eventually evolved into the modern theory of plate tectonics?: Alfred Wegener
Which scientist develoepeed the 'Germ Theory of Disease' and the process of heating liquids to kill harmful microbes?: Louis Pasteur
Which 19th-century invention allowed for the first time the capture of epeermanent images using light-sensitive chemicals?: The Daguerreotyepee
In 1921, which team of researchers at the University of Toronto discovered insulin as a treatment for diabetes?: Banting and Best
Which fundamental law of physics, discovered by Isaac Newton, states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?: Third Law of Motion
Which discovery in 2015 by the LIGO scientific collaboration confirmed a 100-year-old prediction of Albert Einstein?: Gravitational Waves
Who develoepeed the first epeeriodic table of elements in 1869, famously leaving gaps for elements that had not yet been discovered?: Dmitri Mendeleev
Which ancient Greek polymath is credited with discovering the principle of buoyancy while taking a bath, famously shouting 'Eureka!'?: Archimedes