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Charles Darwin
Theory of evolution and natural selection
Marie Curie
Discovery of radioactivity and radium
Louis Pasteur
Germ theory of diseases and Pasteurization
Isaac Newton
Laws of motion and universal gravitation
Albert Einstein
Theory of Relativity (General and Special)
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell's equations (unified electromagnetism)
Gregor Mendel
Father of modern genetics
Gregory Pincus
Development of the combined oral contraceptive pill
Guglielmo Marconi
Development of long-distance wireless telegraphy (radio)
Rosalind Franklin
Contribution to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure
Carl Linnaeus
Binomial nomenclature and taxonomic classification of organisms
Michael Faraday
Electromagnetic induction and laws of electrolysis
Niels Bohr
Bohr model of the atom
James Watson and Francis Crick
Co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule
Enrico Fermi
First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Dmitri Mendeleev
Creation of the Periodic Table of elements
Antoine Lavoisier
Law of Conservation of Mass and father of modern chemistry
Lise Meitner
Role in the discovery of nuclear fission
Alfred Wegener
Theory of continental drift
Max Planck
Quantum theory and Planck's constant
Erwin Schrödinger
Schrödinger equation in quantum mechanics
Galileo Galilei
Provided evidence for heliocentrism and improved the telescope
Alexander Fleming
Discovery of penicillin
André-Marie Ampère
Founder of the science of electrodynamics, now known as electromagnetism
Werner Heisenberg
Uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics
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