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