Famous Scientists and Their Big Ideas

What this quiz asks

• Which scientist is famous for the equation E = mc²?
• Legend says Archimedes had a breakthrough while climbing into one of these. What was he trying to find out?
• On which ship did Charles Darwin sail around the world between 1831 and 1836?
• The Hippocratic Oath is named after a physician from which ancient civilisation?
• Isaac Newton spent the last decades of his life running England's Royal Mint.
• Florence Nightingale first became famous nursing soldiers during which war?
• Which Swedish botanist created the two-part Latin naming system for species, as in Homo sapiens?
• Robert Hooke coined the biological term 'cell' after looking at thin slices of what under his microscope?
• Did Albert Einstein receive his Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity?
• Which French chemist, executed during the Revolution in 1794, gave oxygen and hydrogen their names?
• Select ALL of these scientists who became famous for studying great apes in the wild.
• Whose gold-foil experiment showed that every atom has a tiny, dense nucleus?
• Ivan Pavlov's famous experiments with dogs demonstrated which kind of learning?
• Which scientist, famous for his atomic theory, described his own colour blindness so well that it was named after him?
• Select ALL of these elements discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie.
• Darwin's and Alfred Russel Wallace's ideas on natural selection were first presented at the same scientific meeting.
• In what year did Isaac Newton publish his Principia, setting out his laws of motion?
• Order these scientists by when they were born, earliest first.
• Which physicist, working with her nephew Otto Frisch, explained nuclear fission in 1939?
• Fossil hunter Mary Anning made her famous finds on the coast around which English town?