Scientists Who Changed the World

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1. Who was the first to prove that the square of the hypotenuse on a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides? Ptolemy Copernicus Pythagoras Marie Curie

2. Who once said to the people of Syracuse, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth"? Aristotle Galen of Pergamum Hipparchus Archimedes

3. Who of the following died in Clos-Luce, near Amboise, France in 1519? Leonardo Da Vinci Democritus of Abdera Johannes Gutenberg Edmund Halley

4. Who was forced to go on the run after leaving an apprenticeship and borrowing money against his inheritance to develop an idea? Karl Wilhelm Scheele Daniel Fahrenheit Christiaan Huygens James Watt

5. Despite possible claims to the title by other scientists, who is regarded by most as the true founder of modern chemistry? Antoine Lavoisier Joseph Montgolfier Rene Descartes Robert Boyle

6. Who is remembered for his atomic theories even though his primary interest was in the weather? Joseph Gay-Lussac Johann Gregor Mendel James Joule John Dalton

7. Who is famous for his discoveries in the elimination of bacteria in milk? Lord Kelvin Louis Pasteur Nikola Tesla William Gilbert

8. Whose first commercially successful invention was the universal stock ticker? Joseph Priestley Thomas Alva Edison Paul Ehrlich Thomas Newcomen

9. Who graduated on physics from the Sorbonne top of their class? Charles Darwin Benjamin Franklin Marie Curie Andre-Marie Ampere

10. Who of the following urged Franklin D. Roosevelt to develop the atom bomb? Alexander Graham Bell Albert Einstein Edwin Hubble Sir Frank Whittle