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