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Fun Trivia: S : Scientists

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She is famous for her study of early human fossils.

    Mary Leakey.

He is famous for inventing the calculating machine known as the Difference Engine.
    Charles Babbage.

He is noted to have said the following quote: 'Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.'
    Archimedes. He is also known for the famous, 'Eureka.'

He is reported to have said, 'The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear surfaces are measured.'
    Binet. Binet is famous for his intelligence scale.

She had Nobel laureate parents, a physicist daughter, and along with her husband demonstrated the creation of an isotope of Nitrogen. What was her first name?
    Irene. Irene Curie was the daughter of the famous Marie and Pierre Curie.

She is famous for completing work on the Brooklyn Bridge.
    Emily Roebling.

He is known for his 'germ theory of disease.'
    Louis Pasteur.

He is noted to have said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. '
    Newton.

He was a Physics Nobel Prize Laureate in 1903.
    Henri Becquerel.

He is noted to have said, 'The most incomprehensible thing about our universe is that it can be comprehended.'
    Einstein.


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