Great Names in Science

Great Names in Science

Over the centuries, many scientists have improved our perception of the world. Here they are.

Find the men and women who have contributed to the advancement of science.
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Writer Panoramix  Category History   Science   Series Great Names Keywords People  Extra Topic Sheet
Game creation: 2020-04-11 | Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons | Photo credit (thumbnail): Wikimedia Commons
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  • He developed a theory in the 5th century BC that matter is composed of indivisible atoms.

    Socrates | Democritus | Aristotle | Thales
  • He renewed the optics by creating the first telescope and proving that white light is made up of colors.

    Augustin Fresnel | Leonhard Euler | Christian Huygens | Isaac Newton
  • A French physicist from Poland, she was responsible for the discovery of polonium and radium.

    Maria Goeppert | Irene Joliot | Marie Curie | Lise Meitner
  • We owe him the huge Saturn V rocket, thanks to which the Apollo program was able to send men to the Moon.

    Robert Oppenheimer | Robert H. Goddard | Neil Armstrong | Werner von Braun
  • He made the discovery of the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, when he was still simply a technician in an observatory.

    Clyde Tombaugh | Edwin Hubble | Vesto Slipher | Percival Lowell

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2020-06-16 23:35:53
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Super Quiz, nous en voulons d'autres !!
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